From Real stdClass Object to Mock

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I have a Soap WebService that returns StdClass Object with different properties. What i want to do is to create a Mock Object that simulates the StdClass returned by WebService. What i dont want to do is to create the mock object manually. I dont want to serialize, unserialize the object because i want to maybe edit propertie values inside VCS.

So basically i need to turn this:

stdClass Object
(
    [paramA] => 1
    [paramB] => 2
    [paramC] => 3
    [paramD] => Array
    (
        [0] => stdClass Object
            (
                [paramD1] => 'blabla'
                [paramD2] => 'blabla'

into this:

$object = new stdClass;
$object -> paramA = 1;
$object -> paramB = 2;
$object -> paramC = 3;
$object -> paramD -> paramD1 = "blabla";
$object -> paramD -> paramD2 = "blabla";

How would you do it?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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A good way to quickly build stdClass objects is to cast an array to an object (outlined in Type Juggling):

$object = (object) array('prop' => 'value');

and as this shows, keys become property names and the values their values:

echo $object->prop; # value

This also works inside each other, like having an array of child objects:

$object = (object) array(
    'prop'     => 'value',
    'children' => array(
        (object) array('prop' => 'value'),
    ),
);

Which will give you something along the lines like:

echo $object->children[0]->prop; # value

Which looks like that this is what you're looking for.

See as well Convert Array to Object PHP for some more examples and variations.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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answered Apr 25 '13 at 15:27

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Sorry, not really what i want. I want to "parse" object one time and save the output as object definition. – Timur Apr 26 '13 at 09:03
You might be looking for something called serialization: http://php.net/language.oop5.serialization – hakre Apr 26 '13 at 09:24
"I dont want to serialize, unserialize the object because i want to maybe edit propertie values inside VCS." or do you have any ideas how i can turn serialized object into object definition? – Timur Apr 26 '13 at 12:29
Uhm, well, serialzation is for storing. So to say to put an object "off-line" (program not running) and back online again. If you also need to edit the serialized format - you write VCS - you probably mean by using a text-editor? Because objects serialized with `serialize()` can just be edited as well with a PHP script that is unserializing them, modifying the online object and serializing again. Another way in PHP that is similar simple to serialize/unserialize is to use `var_export` to write and `include` with the `return` statement to pull it back in. You save a PHP file you can edit then. – hakre Apr 26 '13 at 13:13
An example of that is here: http://blog.elijaa.org/index.php?post/2010/06/22/Handle-configuration-in-PHP-with-var_export() - just you can probably better understand what I just commented about `var_export`. – hakre Apr 26 '13 at 13:14

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