Zend Hal with protected object member

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1

I am new in Zend framework, and trying to use HAL for API response generation. In the following is a simpler situation of my issues.

The class:

class Version
{
    protected $data;

    public function __construct($ar){
        $data = $ar;
    }

    public function getArrayCopy(){
        return $data;
    }
}
$obj = new version(['major'=>1,'minor'=>2,'fix'=>3]);

When I test with hydrator, it works well as per the following:

use Zend\Hydrator\ArraySerializableHydrator;

$hydrator           = new ArraySerializableHydrator();
$data =  $hydrator->extract($obj);

print_r($data); // outputs ['major'=>1,'minor'=>2,'fix'=>3]

My HAL configuration is following:

MetadataMap::class => [
    [
        '__class__' => RouteBasedResourceMetadata::class,
        'resource_class' => Version::class,
        'route' => 'version',
        'extractor' => ArraySerializableHydrator::class,
    ],
]

I use the following line in my Zend expressive (version 3) request handler

$resource = $this->resourceGenerator->fromObject($obj, $request);
$res = $this->responseFactory->createResponse($request, $resource);

The link is generated correctly, but the meta data (version info) is coming as empty. Any help will be much appreciated.

N.B.: My real code is complex, here I tried to generate a simpler version of the issue.

2

Can you provide some sample output, please? Also, what is $obj in your above example — a Version instance? or something else?

3

I have fixed it. There was a different issue in my configuration and that was actually causing the problem. Thanks for your support