From b3f2c7af1c233b6de309b62b085efc5a71c986bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Ninic <ninicstefan94@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 12:17:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] New methods, toArray(), toJson(), toCollection(), toFlat()

---
 README.md                           |  2 +-
 src/Classes/ExportLocalizations.php | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 src/routes.php                      |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4baca87..0e52cb6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ use KgBot\LaravelLocalization\Facades\ExportLocalizations as LaravelLocalization
 View::composer( 'view.file', function ( $view ) {
 
     return $view->with( [
-        'messages' => ExportLocalization::export(),
+        'messages' => ExportLocalization::export()->toArray(),
     ] );
 } );
 ```
diff --git a/src/Classes/ExportLocalizations.php b/src/Classes/ExportLocalizations.php
index 8c72d81..4303f62 100644
--- a/src/Classes/ExportLocalizations.php
+++ b/src/Classes/ExportLocalizations.php
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@
 
 class ExportLocalizations
 {
+    /**
+     * @var $strings array
+     */
+    protected $strings = [];
+
     public function export()
     {
         function dirToArray( $dir )
@@ -91,6 +96,50 @@ function dirToArray( $dir )
 
         event( new LaravelLocalizationExported( $strings ) );
 
-        return $strings;
+        $this->strings = $strings;
+
+        return $this;
+    }
+
+    public function toArray()
+    {
+        return $this->strings;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * If you need special format of array that's recognised by some npm localization packages as Lang.js
+     * https://github.com/rmariuzzo/Lang.js use this method
+     *
+     * @param array  $array
+     * @param string $prefix
+     *
+     * @return array
+     */
+    public function toFlat( $array = [], $prefix = '' )
+    {
+        $array  = ( count( $array ) ) ? $array : $this->strings;
+        $result = [];
+
+        foreach ( $array as $key => $value ) {
+            $new_key = $prefix . ( empty( $prefix ) ? '' : '.' ) . $key;
+
+            if ( is_array( $value ) ) {
+                $result = array_merge( $result, $this->toFlat( $value, $new_key ) );
+            } else {
+                $result[ $new_key ] = $value;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return $result;
+    }
+
+    public function toJson()
+    {
+        return json_encode( $this->strings );
+    }
+
+    public function toCollection()
+    {
+        return collect( $this->strings );
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/routes.php b/src/routes.php
index f3ca325..4bb2231 100644
--- a/src/routes.php
+++ b/src/routes.php
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  */
 Route::get( config( 'laravel-localization.routes.prefix' ), function () {
 
-    $strings = ExportLocalizations::export();
+    $strings = ExportLocalizations::export()->toArray();
 
     return response()->json( $strings );
 } )->name( 'assets.lang' )->middleware( config( 'laravel-localization.routes.middleware' ) );