README

JsonResolver is a simple class that enables you to recursively encode / decode a tree of objects to json without having to deal with stdClasses.

This is being achieved by simply injecting the original class into the json as "json_resolve_class" property.

Installation

JsonResolver can be installed via. composer:

{
    "require": {
        "gries/json-resolver": "dev-master"
    },
}

Usage

Every plain php object is supported the only requirement is that \JsonSerializeable is implemented.

Current features:

• automatically decodes objects back to their previous classes.
• automatically decodes related objects back to their previous classes if they implement the \JsonSerializeable interface.
• automatically decodes arrays / traversable related objects if their values implement the \JsonSerializeable interface.
• has a fallback method for objects that have not been previously encoded with the JsonResolver

example usage

<?php

$book = new Book(); // JsonSerializeable
$author = new Author(); // JsonSerializeable
$author->addBook($book);    // author has a property books that is a array or TraversableInterface

$resolver = new JsonResolver();

$json = $resolver->encode($author);
$author = $resolver->decode($json);

get_class($author); // Author
get_class($author->getBooks()->getFirst()); // Book

For further examples see the examples section.