Convert Collection (ResultCollection, GenricCollection) to Array
roliod opened this issue · 4 comments
Is there a way to convert a Collection back to an Array?
There is always the toArray() method to call on collections, although not having been busy with the code in a very long time I am not sure what results this produces over the various options that give back a collection.
@wtfzdotnet It returns some sort of array but with no iterations you can call, so it is quite difficult to specify values to get.
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-genres: Genres {#1047
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}
1 => Genre {#1049
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}
-homepage: null
-id: 396422
-imdbId: null
-originalTitle: "Annabelle: Creation"
-originalLanguage: "en"
-overview: "Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle."
-popularity: 205.817386
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-productionCompanies: GenericCollection {#1039
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}
-productionCountries: GenericCollection {#1032
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}
-releaseDate: DateTime {#1053
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-spokenLanguages: GenericCollection {#1034
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#alternativeTitles: GenericCollection {#1033
#data: []
}
#changes: GenericCollection {#1021
#data: []
}
#credits: CreditsCollection {#1022
+cast: Cast {#1019
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}
-crew: Crew {#1018
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}
-guestStars: GuestStars {#1035
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}
}
#images: Images {#1031
#data: []
}
#keywords: GenericCollection {#1020
#data: []
}
#lists: GenericCollection {#1036
#data: []
}
#releases: GenericCollection {#1042
#data: []
}
#release_dates: GenericCollection {#1043
#data: []
}
#similar: GenericCollection {#1044
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}
#translations: GenericCollection {#1045
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}
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#videos: Videos {#1046
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}
}
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}
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-budget: null
-genres: Genres {#1071
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-name: null
}
1 => Genre {#1073
-id: 12
-name: null
}
2 => Genre {#1074
-id: 35
-name: null
}
]
}
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-id: 343668
-imdbId: null
-originalTitle: "Kingsman: The Golden Circle"
-originalLanguage: "en"
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-spokenLanguages: GenericCollection {#1056
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#alternativeTitles: GenericCollection {#1057
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#changes: GenericCollection {#1058
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}
#credits: CreditsCollection {#1059
+cast: Cast {#1060
#data: []
}
-crew: Crew {#1061
#data: []
}
-guestStars: GuestStars {#1062
#data: []
}
}
#images: Images {#1063
#data: []
}
#keywords: GenericCollection {#1064
#data: []
}
#lists: GenericCollection {#1065
#data: []
}
#releases: GenericCollection {#1066
#data: []
}
#release_dates: GenericCollection {#1067
#data: []
}
#similar: GenericCollection {#1068
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}
#translations: GenericCollection {#1069
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I think the best way will be to have a reverse of the 'createCollection' function in the Factory.
I don't know your exact use case for wanting this data, but I have some idea's of why you would want this;
Clientside ajax call
I think you are far better off exposing a javascript implementation that directly connects to tmdb.
For other reasons I would honestly just consume the raw api methods and skip the overhead of creating the models etc.
Hope that helps, if not being more specific might help :)
@wtfzdotnet I wanted to use this package to create an API quite similar to that of TMDB itself.
So I'll need the collection in an Array so that I can easily convert to json using the json_encode() function. The toArray() function on the collection does not return a valid array so json_encode() returns as empty.
I found a work around though. But I had to pick the values I wanted from the collection, convert to an array and then to json. I just thought it might be best to have a function that can be used to achieve this