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I'm implementing custom API for Magento 2. My client want the response to be as associative array.
Here is my class method:

class Gcapiapi implements GcapiapiInterface

{

     /**

       * Returns greeting message to user

       *

       * @param string[] $products

       * @return array

       */



       public function list($products  = NULL)

       {

          $result = array();

          $stockItems = ...

          ...

          foreach($stockItems as $stockItem){

             $itemData = array('product_id' => $product->getId(), 'sku' => $productSku, 'qty' => $stockItem->getQty(), 'is_in_stock' => $stockItem->getIsInStock());

             $result[] = $itemData;

          }

          return $result;

       }

}

Here is interface declaration:

interface GcapiapiInterface

{

   /**

   * Returns greeting message to user

   *

   * @param string[] $products

   * @return array

   */

    public function list($products = NULL);



}

I've added logs and I see that my method list executing. But in response I'm getting 500 error.
In exception.log I see the error:

Message: Class "array" does not exist. Please note that namespace must be specified.

I want to get the following response:

array (size=2)

0 => 

array (size=4)

  'product_id' => string '3708' (length=4)

  'sku' => string 'W3L2221LDCB2' (length=12)

  'qty' => string '228.0000' (length=8)

  'is_in_stock' => string '1' (length=1)

1 => 

array (size=4)

  'product_id' => string '3709' (length=4)

  'sku' => string 'W7L1226E5C96' (length=12)

  'qty' => string '23.0000' (length=7)

  'is_in_stock' => string '1' (length=1)

Can I get SOAP response as associative array somehow?
Thanks,

Rewrite your class as:

class Gcapiapi implements GcapiapiInterface

{

     /**

       * Returns greeting message to user

       *

       * @param string[] $products

       * @return mixed[]

       */



       public function list($products  = NULL)

       {

          $result = array();

          $stockItems = ...

          ...

          foreach($stockItems as $stockItem){

             $itemData = array('product_id' => $product->getId(), 'sku' => $productSku, 'qty' => $stockItem->getQty(), 'is_in_stock' => $stockItem->getIsInStock());

             $result[] = $itemData;

          }

          return $result;

       }

}

You can see the change in return type: array -> mixed[]

It's strongly advised to use Data interface in such cases even though mixed[] will work for you.

Once you've received the response from Magento, you can use the following snippet to convert the SOAP object into a PHP associative array:

<?php



$response = simplexml_load_string($soapResponse->any);

$response = json_decode(json_encode($response), true);

Assuming that $soapResponse->any has this content:

<data count="1" count_available="1">

    <row id="1">

        <sku>1830DMG</sku>

        <price>74.06</price>

        <stockid>519745</stockid>

    </row>

</data>

You'll get an array which looks like this:

$ php -f apitest3.php

array(2) {

    ["@attributes"]=>

  array(2) {

        ["count"]=>

    string(1) "1"

        ["count_available"]=>

    string(1) "1"

  }

  ["row"]=>

  array(4) {

        ["@attributes"]=>

    array(1) {

            ["id"]=>

      string(1) "1"

    }

    ["sku"]=>

    string(7) "1830DMG"

        ["price"]=>

    string(5) "74.06"

        ["stockid"]=>

    string(6) "519745"

  }

}