Serialize and unserialize a PHP object-graph to/from a JSON string-representation.
STATUS: complete and working; needs proper unit-testing.
This library can serialize and unserialize a complete PHP object-graph to/from a JSON string-representation.
This library differs in a number of ways from e.g. json_encode(), serialize(),
var_export() and other existing serialization libraries, in a number of important
ways. Please see here for detailed technical background information:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10489876
The most important thing to understand, is that this library is designed to store self-contained object-graphs - it does not support shared or circular object-references. This is by design, and in-tune with good DDD design practices. An object-graph with shared or circular references cannot be stored directly as JSON, in a predictable format, primarily because the JSON data-format is a tree, not a graph.
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