Req #75400 [Ana]: Already As JSON

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75400&edit=1 ID: 75400 Updated by: kelunik@php.net Reported by: jwalton at aretehs dot com Summary: Already As JSON Status: Analyzed Type: Feature/Change Request Package: JSON related Operating System: Any PHP Version: 7.0.24 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: pollita Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Assigning to you, pollita, because you plan to work on it. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-10-23 23:57:37] pollita@php.net That's not unreasonable. I'll propose it to the list and see about getting it into 7.3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-10-17 19:55:11] jwalton at aretehs dot com Description: ------------ Ability for an object to specify that it already is encoded. Example, data returned from a database may already be in JSON format, so it seems pretty pointless to decode it, only to re-encode it in another object. It could be as simple as adding a new function maybe, like, jsonRawSerialize() or something. My issue is that sometimes the the json is over 200k and it adds quite a bit of extra CPU cycles. Test script: --------------- // Example class MyJSON { public function jsonSerialize() { return '{"myobject":true}'; } } print json_encode((object)[ "result" => new MyJSON() ]); // should print // {"result"=>{"myobject"=>true}} // //right now you have to do class MyJSON2 { public function jsonSerialize() { return json_decode('{"myobject":true}'); } } print json_encode((object)[ "result" => new MyJSON2() ]); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75400&edit=1