Is it possible to creare a failover with this package ? about laravel-exchange-rates HOT 2 CLOSED

Hey @michabbb!

I do think that the idea of having a failover driver could be a nice-to-have for the package. But at the moment, I've got no plans of adding anything like that, sorry.

At the moment, it's possible to choose your driver at runtime like shown in the docs (https://github.com/ash-jc-allen/laravel-exchange-rates#drivers). For example:

// Using the "ExchangeRate" class:
$result = app(ExchangeRate::class)
    ->driver('exchange-rates-data-api')
    ->exchangeRate('GBP', ['EUR', 'USD']);

// Using the "ExchangeRate" facade:
$result = ExchangeRate::driver('exchange-rates-data-api')
    ->exchangeRate('GBP', ['EUR', 'USD']);

However, because of the way I've built the package so far (without the intention of there being a failover), the drivers get the API key from the same config variable. So if you wanted to use a different service on the fly, I think you'd probably want to override the config when switching drivers. For example:

ExchangeRate::driver('exchange-rates-data-api')
    ->exchangeRate('GBP', ['EUR', 'USD']);

// If the call didn't work, try with a different provider...

config(['laravel-exchange-rates.api_key' => 'MY OTHER API KEY']);

ExchangeRate::driver('exchange-rate-host')
    ->exchangeRate('GBP', ['EUR', 'USD']);

It's not ideal, but it should hopefully do the job 🙂

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Thanks for the detailed answer 👍🙏

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