Laravel MessageBag Public API: jsonSerialize

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)

#Continue Reading

This article is the start of a mini-series about Laravel's ErrorMessageBag component. Click through the rest of the articles to continue reading:

• An Introduction to Laravel Message Bags
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: add
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: all
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: any
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: count
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: first
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: get
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: getFormat
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: getMessageBag
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: getMessages
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: has
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: isEmpty
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: jsonSerialize
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: keys
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: merge
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: setFormat
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: toArray
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: toJson
• Laravel MessageBag Public API: __toString

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