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

I must say I am a bit dismayed that this isn't just standard, off the shelf functionality -- of some library, if not JSON itself. Why wouldn't you want to have essentially similar objects on both sides? (As far as JSON will let you, anyway)

Am I missing something here? Is there a library that does this? (AFAICT, none of [thrift, protocol buffers, avro] actually have API's for javascript. For my problem, I am most interested in JS <-> PHP, somewhat also in JS <-> python .)