Convert Stripe API response to JSON using stripe-php library

Question

I\'m accessing customer data from the Stripe API, which I\'d like to convert to JSON. Usually I\'d convert an object to an array and use json_encode() but I don

Answer 1

Your top level object contains other object instances - the cast to (array) affects only the top level element. You might need to recursively walk down - but I'd do it differently here given that the classes are serializable:

$transfer = serialize($myobject);

What are you going to do with the otherwise JSONified data?

If you're going to transfer an object without the class information you might try to use Reflection:

abstract class Object {

    /**
     * initialize an object from matching properties of another object
     */
    protected function cloneInstance($obj) {
        if (is_object($obj)) {
            $srfl = new ReflectionObject($obj);
            $drfl = new ReflectionObject($this);
            $sprops = $srfl->getProperties();
            foreach ($sprops as $sprop) {
                $sprop->setAccessible(true);
                $name = $sprop->getName();
                if ($drfl->hasProperty($name)) {
                    $value = $sprop->getValue($obj);
                    $propDest = $drfl->getProperty($name);
                    $propDest->setAccessible(true);
                    $propDest->setValue($this,$value);
                }
            }
        }
        else
            Log::error('Request to clone instance %s failed - parameter is not an object', array(get_class($this)));
        return $this;
    }

    public function stdClass() {
        $trg = (object)array();
        $srfl = new ReflectionObject($this);
        $sprops = $srfl->getProperties();
        foreach ($sprops as $sprop) {
            if (!$sprop->isStatic()) {
                $sprop->setAccessible(true);
                $name = $sprop->getName();
                $value = $sprop->getValue($this);
                $trg->$name = $value;
            }
        }
        return $trg;
    }

}

This is the base class of most of my transferrable classes. It creates a stdClass object from a class, or initializes a class from a stdClass object. You might easily adopt this to your own needs (e.g. create an array).