Getting data as array instead of stdClass

[weierophinney]

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I'm using zf-rest for building my RESTful web apps. I have the following configurations:

'zf-rest' => [
  Resource\FeedbackResource::class => [
    'listener' => Resource\FeedbackResource::class,
    'route_name' => 'api/rest/feedback',
    'entity_http_methods' => [
    ],
    'collection_http_methods' => [
      'POST',
    ],
  ],
],
'zf-content-validation' => [
  Resource\FeedbackResource::class => [
    'use_raw_data' => false,
    'allows_only_fields_in_filter' => true,
    'POST' => Resource\FeedbackResource::class . '\\Validator',
  ],
],
'input_filter_specs' => [
  Resource\FeedbackResource::class . '\\Validator' => [
    Resource\FeedbackResource::PARAM_NAME => $inputFilterSpecForStrings,
    Resource\FeedbackResource::PARAM_EMAIL => $inputFilterSpecForStrings,
  ],
],

Then I created the resource with the corresponding method:

class FeedbackResource extends AbstractResourceListener
{
  public function create($data)
  {
    // do something
  }
}

I posted a json string to the endpoint and everything works fine so far. But what I'm wondering about is that I will get $data as an object with the json data as attributes. I expected to get an assoziative array. Is this possible?

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Originally posted by @kschroeer at zfcampus/zf-rest#114

[weierophinney]

you can always cast it to an array. like: $dataArray = (array)$data; assuming you don't have a nested object. in which case, you can do $dataArray = json_decode(json_encode($data), true);

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Originally posted by @alextartan at zfcampus/zf-rest#114 (comment)

[weierophinney]

You can pass an object around and change the properties. An array (not ArrayObject) cannot do that and I believe that's why $data is an object.

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Originally posted by @TomHAnderson at zfcampus/zf-rest#114 (comment)

[weierophinney]

Yes, I know I can use (array), get_object_vars or json_encode/json_decode, I was only wondering about the fact that fetchAll() always gets an array (GET request) and create() gets an object instead (POST request). That seems a bit unlogic.

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Originally posted by @kschroeer at zfcampus/zf-rest#114 (comment)

[weierophinney]

I was only wondering about the fact that fetchAll() always gets an array (GET request) and create() gets an object instead (POST request). That seems a bit unlogic.

How so? A GET request has no request body, so any parameters passed are query string arguments; these generally do not map to an object, but are rather considered key/value pairs that typically are not related. As such, we do not map them to objects.

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Originally posted by @weierophinney at zfcampus/zf-rest#114 (comment)