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Laravel MessageBag Public API: jsonSerialize

By John Koster

The jsonSeralize method internally returns the value of the toArray method. This method exists to implement PHP's JsonSerializable interface, which allows developers to customize how a class is represented when using the json_encode function.

 1<?php

 2

 3use Illuminate\Support\Collection;

 4

 5// Create a new collection.

 6$collection = new Collection([

 7    'first', 'second', 'third'

 8]);

 9

10// Get the value that should be encoded with

11// json_encode.

12$value = $collection->jsonSerialize();

The $value variable would contain a value similar to the following output:

1array (size=3)

2  0 => string 'first' (length=5)

3  1 => string 'second' (length=6)

4  2 => string 'third' (length=5)

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