Deserializing from JSON into PHP, with casting?

Question

Suppose I have a User class with \'name\' and \'password\' properties, and a \'save\' method. When serializing an object of this class to JSON via json_encode, the method is pro

Answer 1

Old question, new answer.

What about creating your own interface to match JsonSerializable? ;)

/**
 * Interface JsonUnseriablizable
 */
interface JsonUnseriablizable {
    /**
     * @param array $json
     */
    public function jsonUnserialize(array $json);
}

example:

/**
 * Class Person
 */
class Person implements JsonUnseriablizable {

    public $name;
    public $dateOfBirth;

    /**
     * @param string $json
     */
    public function jsonUnserialize(array $json)
    {
        $this->name = $json['name'] ?? $this->name;
        $this->dateOfBirth = $json['date_of_birth'] ?? $this->dateOfBirth;
    }
}

$json = '{"name":"Bob","date_of_birth":"1970-01-01"}';

$person = new Person();
if($person instanceof JsonUnseriablizable){
    $person->jsonUnserialize(json_decode($json, true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR));
}

var_dump($person->name);