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Implements IETF JSON-patch (RFC 6902) and JSON-pointer (RFC 6901): Using with Composer ------------------- [](#using-with-composer) To use this library as a Composer dependency in your project, include the following sections in your project's `composer.json` file: ``` "repositories": [ { "type": "vcs", "url": "https://github.com/mikemccabe/json-patch-php" } ], "require": { "mikemccabe/json-patch-php": "dev-master" } ``` Then, in your project's code, use the `JsonPatch` class definition from the `mikemccabe\JsonPatch` namespace like so: ``` use mikemccabe\JsonPatch\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(). 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