Corece an array out of an stdClass?

[Ocramius]

Just throwing out ideas, but in the context of JSON -> Domain, the ShapeType could be useful when dealing with JSON structures where the difference between hashmap and array is sometimes to be preserved:

$input = <<<'JSON'
{
  "foo": "hello world!"
}
JSON;

$data = Json\decode($input, false);

echo Type\shape([
    'foo' => Type\non_empty_string(),
])->coerce($data)['foo'];

[veewee]

This could be a nice addition indeed.

Just thinking out loud here: We could accept any object and cast it to an array.

https://3v4l.org/Hrv0H

<?php

$x = (object) [];
$x->foo = 'bar';


class X {
    public $foo = 'bar';
    private $baz = 'bar';
}



var_dump((array) $x);
var_dump((array) new X);

However:

• I'm not sure that this will work for all kind of objects. Maybe you know about this?
• It takes all properties, also private ones.
• It seems a bit hacky to implement it this way.
  • The alternative is to use reflection (like this) - but this package does not have a reflection component (yet).

[Ocramius]

We could accept any object

IMO a bit too risky 😁

Array casts on objects lead to weird null byte keys too.

My endorsement would be to start with stdClass, since its semantics are well known.

Any Traversable is also already handled.

[Ocramius]

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