Serializing stdClass with arbitrary depth

[erichjsonfosse]

When serializing objects of stdClass, I never seem to be able to go deeper than 2.

For example, an entity has a property of type stdClass, which has an array of objects of type stdClass which has both properties of type stdClass, and arrays of objects of type stdClass.

The output should be like this (stdClass object is "theStdObject"):

{
  "Id": 452,
  "Heading": "Cool heading",
  "TeaserText": "Tease tease",
  "TagLine": "Great tag line",
  "MainIntro": "lorem ipsum",
  "SomeProperty": 854,
  "TopImageUrl": "http://foo.bar/baz.png",
  "GoogleMapsLocation": {
    "Address": "Address text",
    "Latitude": 1.2,
    "Longtitude": 12.4,
    "ZoomLevel": 14
  },
  "theStdObject": {
    "anId": 35389458,
    "aName": "Test",
    "anInteger": 0,
    "anArrayOfObjects": [
      {
        "anId": 35389459,
        "aName": "Test 2",
        "ItmLevel": 1,
        "anArrayOfObjects": [
          {
            "ItmId": 18612229,
            "ItmName": "Test 3",
            "ItmLevel": 2,
            "SubProjects": [],
            "RelevantConcepts": [],
            "Address": {
              "StreetAddress": "Kornmoveien 10-22",
              "ZipCode": null,
              "County": null,
              "State": null,
              "PostalCity": null,
              "HasData": true
            },
            "PrimaryConceptId": null,
            "ParentProjectId": 35389459
          },
          {
            "ItmId": 35389461,
            "ItmName": "Test 4",
            "ItmLevel": 2,
            "PrimaryConceptId": null
          }
        ],
        "anObject": {
          "StreetAddress": null,
          "ZipCode": null,
          "County": null,
          "State": null,
          "PostalCity": null,
          "HasData": false
        }
      },
      {
        "anId": 68943884,
        "aName": "Test 5",
        "ItmLevel": 1,
        "anArrayOfObjects": [
          {
            "ItmId": 35389460,
            "ItmName": "Test 6",
            "ItmLevel": 2,
            "Address": {
              "StreetAddress": "String",
              "ZipCode": null,
              "County": "String",
              "State": "String",
              "PostalCity": "String",
              "HasData": true
            },
            "PrimaryConceptId": null,
            "ParentProjectId": 68943884
          }
        ],
        "anObject": {
          "StreetAddress": null,
          "ZipCode": null,
          "County": null,
          "State": null,
          "PostalCity": null,
          "HasData": false
        }
      }
    ],
    "anObject": {
      "StreetAddress": "text value",
      "ZipCode": null,
      "County": null,
      "State": null,
      "PostalCity": null
    }
  }
}

but instead, I get this:

{
  "Id": 452,
  "Heading": "Cool heading",
  "TeaserText": "Tease tease",
  "TagLine": "Great tag line",
  "MainIntro": "lorem ipsum",
  "SomeProperty": 854,
  "TopImageUrl": "http://foo.bar/baz.png",
  "GoogleMapsLocation": {
    "Address": "Address text",
    "Latitude": 1.2,
    "Longtitude": 12.4,
    "ZoomLevel": 14
  },
  "theStdObject": {
    "anId": 35389458,
    "aName": "Test",
    "anInteger": 0,
    "anArrayOfObjects": [
      { },
      { }
    ],
    "anObject": { }
  }
}

I understand that the max_depth property sets a limit that normaly isn't set, but I've tried setting it to a high number without any luck.

Am I doing something wrong?

[erichjsonfosse]

Forgot to mention that the above is true when the yml config for the entity specifies that "theStdObject" is of type array.
When it is of type stdClass, it shows up as an empty object.

[erichjsonfosse]

Also, I guess this is a duplicate of #158 and schmittjoh/serializer#211 . Closing this issue. Sorry for the repost.

[erichjsonfosse]

On second thought, the commit done in schmittjoh/serializer#211 sets the data type to array, which still doesn't output objects of arbitrary depth.

Any feedback on this is greatly appreciated.

[AlexSkrypnyk]

schmittjoh/serializer#429