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Bug #54513 json_decode skips value where json_encode includes it
Submitted: 2011-04-12 13:26 UTC Modified: 2011-04-14 10:15 UTC
From: samu dot voutilainen at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: JSON related
PHP Version: 5.3.6 OS: Gentoo Linux x86
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2011-04-12 13:26 UTC] samu dot voutilainen at gmail dot com
Description:
------------
If you have empty array inside object, json_encode() does encode the value into JSON format, but when the data is decoded with json_decode(), this empty JSON array is omitted from output.

Consider following structure:

 ["timetable"]=>
  object(pizzaonline\model\Timetable)#30 (9) {
    ["id"]=>
    string(3) "774"
    ["timetable"]=>
    array(0) {
    }
    ["opening_hours"]=>
    ..

Corresponding json_encode would be:

"timetable":{
    "id":"774",
    "timetable":[

    ],
    "opening_hours":[
  ..

This is all right, but I have a loop that removes this empty array with unset(). So PHP structure from JSON is encoded is like:

["timetable"]=>
  object(pizzaonline\model\Timetable)#30 (8) {
    ["id"]=>
    string(3) "774"
    ["opening_hours"]=>

But using json_encode() returns same result that is in snippet 2.

Just ask if any questions, I’ll do example script later...


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 [2011-04-12 17:23 UTC] scottmac@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback
 [2011-04-12 17:23 UTC] scottmac@php.net
I need a reproduce script.

I just used:
<?php

$test = new StdClass;

$test->a = 1;
$test->b = array();
$test->c = 'foo';

$json = json_encode($test);
var_dump($test);
var_dump(json_decode($json));

And I got the output:
object(stdClass)#1 (3) {
  ["a"]=>
  int(1)
  ["b"]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  ["c"]=>
  string(3) "foo"
}
object(stdClass)#2 (3) {
  ["a"]=>
  int(1)
  ["b"]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  ["c"]=>
  string(3) "foo"
}

Nothing missing there.
 [2011-04-13 11:44 UTC] samu dot voutilainen at gmail dot com
-Status: Feedback +Status: Closed
 [2011-04-13 11:44 UTC] samu dot voutilainen at gmail dot com
Hmph, sorry, I’m not able to reproduce it either...
 [2011-04-14 10:14 UTC] cataphract@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: cataphract
 [2011-04-14 10:14 UTC] cataphract@php.net
-Status: Closed +Status: Bogus
 [2011-04-14 10:15 UTC] cataphract@php.net
-Assigned To: cataphract +Assigned To:
 [2011-04-14 10:15 UTC] cataphract@php.net
Submit to login had assigned it to me; removing.
 
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