Rest API: return Strings only

[evstevemd (Stefano Mtangoo)]

I have a problem with REST API. The return value consists of Integers and Numbers. I know that is common sense but I want all my fields in JSON to be strings not their natural value. Is there a setting to disable converting values to their natural type and remain strings only?

TIA

[patrickm (Yiiframework)]

See "Controlling JSON output" here:

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-rest-response-formatting.html#data-serializing

JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK might help:

http://php.net/manual/en/json.constants.php

[evstevemd (Stefano Mtangoo)]

See "Controlling JSON output" here:

http://www.yiiframew…ata-serializing

JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK might help:

http://php.net/manua...n.constants.php

Thanks a lot. I use AR for this specific case and docs there says

When returning data from a database using the DAO database layer all data will be represented as strings, which is not always the expected result especially numeric values should be represented as numbers in JSON. When using the ActiveRecord layer for retrieving data from the database, the values for numeric columns will be converted to integers when data is fetched from the database in yii\db\ActiveRecord::populateRecord().

I hope that means it automagically adds the JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK to encode options (though not explicitly said I think it is implied). So will overriding the encodeOptions help in this case? I mean something like this, will it work?

'response' => [

	'formatters' => [

    	\yii\web\Response::FORMAT_JSON => [

        	'class' => 'yii\web\JsonResponseFormatter', 

        	'encodeOptions' => JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE, //No JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK here

    	],

	],

],

[patrickm (Yiiframework)]

So will overriding the encodeOptions help in this case? I mean something like this, will it work?

Don’t know, but sounds worth a try