[Bug] Ardent object not serializable

[ghost]

I noticed that when trying to serialize an Ardent model I get an error:
Serialization of 'Closure' is not allowed

Basically the cause is the purgeFilters property is being set to a Closure in the constructor.

Would be great if it can be fixed ;)

Cheers,

Bryan te Beek

[maximebeaudoin]

👍

[laravelbook]

Unfortunately, anonymous functions cannot be serialized in PHP. There are some (convoluted) workarounds.

As for serializing model objects I can think up a work-around: instead of de/serializing the original ardent class, derive a second object (i.e. "MyArdentModelSlice") which represents a subset of the base model class (attributes, rules, custom error messages etc.)

I'm keen to hear your thoughts on this issue.

[ghost]

My main point is that Eloquent models are serializable. So Ardent models should also be serializable otherwise basic laravel things like this won't work imho.

$users = Cache::remember('users', $minutes, function()
{
    return User::all();
});

[laravelbook]

@bryantebeek - Thanks for the elegant solution to the real problem! 👍
I've slightly modified your patch to prevent accidental re-initialization of the filters array: 49395b2