Record need JsonSerialize #390

src/DataMapper/Entity/Entity.php

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  * Entity is a Data object sub class, we can set fields of this object
  * then help us filter non necessary values to prevent error when inserting to database.
  */
-class Entity extends Data
+class Entity extends Data implements \JsonSerializable
 {
 	const DUMP_ALL_DATA = true;
 
@@ -499,4 +499,17 @@ protected function toCamelCase($input)
 
 		return str_ireplace(' ', '', $input);
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Specify data which should be serialized to JSON
+	 *
+	 * @return  mixed data which can be serialized by json_encode(),
+	 *          which is a value of any type other than a resource.
+	 *
+	 * @since   3.1.3
+	 */
+	public function jsonSerialize()
+	{
+		return $this->data;
+	}
 }

src/DataMapper/Test/EntityTest.php

@@ -170,4 +170,14 @@ public function testMutator()
 
 		$this->assertEquals('yoo_bar', $entity->flower_sakura);
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * testJsonSerialize
+	 *
+	 * @return  void
+	 */
+	public function testJsonSerialize()
+	{
+		$this->assertEquals(json_encode($this->instance->dump(true)), json_encode($this->instance));
+	}
 }