Serializing objects to ZF3 MVC Response JSON

Question

I have a Zend Framework 3 app. I added the ViewJsonStrategy to module.config.php. This lets the following endpoint return JSON:

public function helloAction() {
    return new JsonModel([
        'msg'=> 'Hello World!',
    ]);
}

However, I want to return objects

class HelloObjectResponse
{
    protected $message;

    public function getMessage() : string {
        return $this->message;
    }

    public function setMessage(string $message) : self  {
        $this->message = $message;
        return $this;
    }
}

---

public function helloObjectAction() {
    $obj = new HelloObjectResponse();
    $obj->setMessage('Hello World!');
    return new JsonModel($obj);
}

This gives me a Zend error message.

Zend\View\Model\ViewModel::setVariables: expects an array, or Traversable argument; received "Application\Model\HelloObjectResponse"

How do I make that object JSON easily in a way that zend will know to set the mime type and all that.

Answer 1

use Zend\View\Model\JsonModel;
use Zend\Hydrator\Reflection;

$obj = new HelloObjectResponse();
$obj->setMessage('Hello World!');

$hydrator = new Reflection;
return new JsonModel($hydrator->extract($obj));