I'm working on a simple RESTful API and have a basic model. The model has a field which is being cast to bool through a getter.
On output of controller if I do return json_encode(["asdf"=>$alert->is_seen]); I see asdf:false, however if I do: $this->response->setJsonContent($alert); I get is_seen: 0. Why is there this inconsistency?
I've had to add an afterFetch method to cast the values returned from the db, which seems double the work - is this really the correct way?
Try something like this:
public function MyApiAction()
{
$this->response->setContentType("application/json");
return $this->response->setJsonContent([
"results" => $alert->is_seen
]);
$this->response->send();
$this->view->setRenderLevel(View::LEVEL_ACTION_VIEW);
}
You're not using Micro but full MVC app? what happens if you return from your controller:
return $this->response->setJsonContent(['yourDataArray' => 0xff], JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK);@Jonathan interesting - the bools are being output as 0/1.
I've since set a metadata strategy of annotation, and set the type for the boolean columns to 'boolean' in the annotations. shouldn't phalcon automatically cast them to bool?
I think I solved it like this:
\Phalcon\Mvc\Model::setup([
'castOnHydrate' => true,
'notNullValidations' => false,
]);