Convert Stripe API response to JSON using stripe-php library

Question

I\'m accessing customer data from the Stripe API, which I\'d like to convert to JSON. Usually I\'d convert an object to an array and use json_encode() but I don

Answer 1

On the latest version, You can use echo $customer->toJSON(); to get the output as JSON.

Answer 2

The attributes of Stripe_Objects can be accessed like this:

$customer->attribute;

So to get the customer's card's last4, you can do this:

$customer->default_card->last4;

However, you'll need to make sure you have the default_card attribute populated. You can retrieve the default_card object at the same time as the rest of the customer by passing the expand argument:

$customer = Stripe_Customer::retrieve(array(
    "id" => "cus_2dVcTSc6ZtHQcv", 
    "expand" => array("default_card")
));

Answer 3

Your top level object contains other object instances - the cast to (array) affects only the top level element. You might need to recursively walk down - but I'd do it differently here given that the classes are serializable:

$transfer = serialize($myobject);

What are you going to do with the otherwise JSONified data?

If you're going to transfer an object without the class information you might try to use Reflection:

abstract class Object {

    /**
     * initialize an object from matching properties of another object
     */
    protected function cloneInstance($obj) {
        if (is_object($obj)) {
            $srfl = new ReflectionObject($obj);
            $drfl = new ReflectionObject($this);
            $sprops = $srfl->getProperties();
            foreach ($sprops as $sprop) {
                $sprop->setAccessible(true);
                $name = $sprop->getName();
                if ($drfl->hasProperty($name)) {
                    $value = $sprop->getValue($obj);
                    $propDest = $drfl->getProperty($name);
                    $propDest->setAccessible(true);
                    $propDest->setValue($this,$value);
                }
            }
        }
        else
            Log::error('Request to clone instance %s failed - parameter is not an object', array(get_class($this)));
        return $this;
    }

    public function stdClass() {
        $trg = (object)array();
        $srfl = new ReflectionObject($this);
        $sprops = $srfl->getProperties();
        foreach ($sprops as $sprop) {
            if (!$sprop->isStatic()) {
                $sprop->setAccessible(true);
                $name = $sprop->getName();
                $value = $sprop->getValue($this);
                $trg->$name = $value;
            }
        }
        return $trg;
    }

}

This is the base class of most of my transferrable classes. It creates a stdClass object from a class, or initializes a class from a stdClass object. You might easily adopt this to your own needs (e.g. create an array).

Answer 4

PHP has reserved all method names with a double underscore prefix for future use. See https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php

Currently, in the latest php-stripe library, you can convert the Stripe Object to JSON by simpl calling **->toJSON().

[PREVIOUSLY]

All objects created by the Stripe PHP API library can be converted to JSON with their __toJSON() methods.

Stripe::setApiKey("sk_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");

$customer = Stripe_Customer::create(array(
    "card" => $token, 
    "plan" => $plan,  
));

$customer_json = $customer->__toJSON();

There is also a __toArray($recursive=false) method. Remember to set true as argument otherwise you will get an array filled with stripe objects.

Stripe::setApiKey("sk_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");

$customer = Stripe_Customer::create(array(
    "card" => $token, 
    "plan" => $plan,  
));

$customer_array = $customer->__toArray(true);

Answer 5

If, like me, you arrived here looking for the python 2.7 solution, simply cast the stripe_object to str(). This triggers the object's inner __str__() function which converts the object into a JSON string.

E.g.

charge = stripe.Charge....
print str(charge)

Answer 6

Stripe::setApiKey("sk_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");

$stripe_response= Stripe_Customer::create(array(
    "card" => $token, 
    "plan" => $plan,  
));

//Encoding stripe response to json
$resposnse_json_ecoded= json_encode($stripe_response);
//decoding ecoded respose
$response_decoded = json_decode($resposnse_json_ecoded, true);
//get data in first level
$account_id=$response_decoded['id'];
$individual = $response_decoded['individual'];
//get  data in second level
$person_id=$individual['id'];