How to serialize object that has closures inside properties?

Question

if I do serialize($obj), I get:

Serialization of \'Closure\' is not allowed

Is there any way these closures can be

Answer 1

To serialize properties of an object while ignoring closures :

$properties = array_map(function ($property) {
    try {
        return serialize($property);
    } catch (\Exception $e) {
        return null;
    }
}, get_object_vars($this));