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Just set the damned field! 0.2.0(1y ago)099↓100%LGPL-3.0PHPPHP >=5.3 Since Jan 5Pushed 1mo agoCompare [ Source](https://github.com/php-get-zen/json-patch-php)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/get-zen/json-patch-php)[ RSS](/packages/get-zen-json-patch-php/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelogDependenciesVersions (4)Used By (0) json-patch-php ============== [](#json-patch-php) Forked from [mikemccabe/json-patch-php](https://github.com/mikemccabe/json-patch-php). Produce and apply json-patch objects. Implements IETF JSON-patch (RFC 6902) and JSON-pointer (RFC 6901): Extensions ---------- [](#extensions) Adds custom `ensure` operation (`op`) that replaces the value at target path or creates it if the path does not exist. (alpha!!! works in production, no angry customers so far) Using with Composer ------------------- [](#using-with-composer) ``` composer require get-zen/json-patch-php ``` Then, in your project's code, use the `JsonPatch` class definition from the `GetZen` namespace like so: ``` use GetZen\JsonPatch; ``` Entry points ------------ [](#entry-points) - JsonPatch::get($doc, $pointer) - get a value from a json document - JsonPatch::patch($doc, $patches) - apply patches to $doc and return result - JsonPatch::diff($src, $dst) - return patches to create $dst from $src Arguments are PHP arrays, i.e. the output of json\_decode($json\_string, 1) (Note that you MUST pass 1 as the second argument to json\_decode to get an array. This library does not work with stdClass objects.) All structures are implemented directly as PHP arrays. An array is considered to be 'associative' (e.g. like a JSON 'object') if it contains at least one non-numeric key. Because of this, empty arrays (\[\]) and empty objects ({}) compare the same, and (for instance) an 'add' of a string key to an empty array will succeed in this implementation where it might fail in others. $simplexml\_mode is provided to help with working with arrays produced from XML in the style of simplexml - e.g. repeated XML elements are expressed as arrays. When $simplexml\_mode is enabled, leaves with scalar values are implicitly treated as length-1 arrays, so this test will succeed: ``` { "comment": "basic simplexml array promotion", "doc": { "foo":1 }, "patch": [ { "op":"add", "path":"/foo/1", "value":2 } ], "expected": { "foo":[1, 2] } }, ``` Also, when $simplexml\_mode is true, 1-length arrays are converted to scalars on return from patch(). Tests (!!!! Not maintained) --------------------------- [](#tests--not-maintained) Some tests are in a submodule (). Do 'git submodule init' to pull these, then 'php runtests.php' to run them. 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