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Implementation of JSON Patch (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6902) in PHP

Installation

Require victuxbb/jsonpatch into your composer.json file:

{
    "require": {
        "victuxbb/jsonpatch": "@stable"
    }
}

or inside your root project directory

$ composer require victuxbb/jsonpatch @stable

Documentation

With a target JSON like this:

$targetJSON ='{"baz": "qux","foo": "bar"}';

and a variable with a JSON string operations:

$patchOperations = '[
     { "op": "replace", "path": "/baz", "value": "boo" }
   ]';

create a instance of Patcher and use the "patch" method to get the json result:

$patcher = new Patcher();
$result = $patcher->patch($targetJSON,$patchOperations);

$result will contain:

{"baz":"boo","foo":"bar"}

A typical use case with FOSRestBundle and JMSSerializer:

public function patchUserAction(Request $request,User $user)
    {            
        $json = $request->getContent();
        $jps = $this->get('json_patch_service'); //symfony service that loads Patcher.php
        $serializer = $this->get("jms_serializer");

        $serializerGroup = array('view');

        $sc = SerializationContext::create();
        $sc->setGroups($serializerGroup);

        $jsonUser = $serializer->serialize($user,'json',$sc); //Generating the json target of object that we want to update
        $jsonUser = $jps->patch($jsonUser,$json); //json result with the changes applied of the json operations

        $dc = DeserializationContext::create();
        $dc->setAttribute('target',$user);

        //Restore the doctrine entity object with deserialization and targeting the object with DeserializationContext
        $serializer->deserialize($jsonUser,'Groupalia\BizApiBundle\Entity\User','json',$dc);
        
        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
        $em->persist($user);
        $em->flush();

        $response = new Response();
        $response->setStatusCode(200);
        
        return $response;

    }

Thanks to

*https://github.com/webnium

*https://github.com/javadegava

*http://williamdurand.fr/2014/02/14/please-do-not-patch-like-an-idiot/

*http://www.groupalia.com/