Single items returned inside arrays

[driesvints]

I know the tests are made up to expect this specific format but I cannot understand the reasoning behind it, nor can I find it back on the jsonapi.org website why it's made like this.

For example, in this test, you expect the following response:

{
    "book": [
        {
            "title": "Foo",
            "year": 1991
        }
    ],
    "linked": {
        "author": [
            {
                "name": "Dave"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Why is it like this? I would expect it to return the following when using Item:

{
    "book": {
        "title": "Foo",
        "year": 1991
    },
    "linked": {
        "author": {
            "name": "Dave"
        }
    }
}

[mediaholding]

You can create a new class which extends current serializer and use it for transformation:

class JsonApiSerializer extends \League\Fractal\Serializer\JsonApiSerializer {

    /**
     * Serialize an item resource
     *
     * @param string $resourceKey
     * @param array $data
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function item($resourceKey, array $data)
    {
        return array($resourceKey ?: 'data' => $data);
    }
}

[brayniverse]

I was thrown off by this too.

[philsturgeon]

This is #93 right?

[driesvints]

Yes, sorry. Didn't realise that. It will definitely BC when you change this (and change the tests) so keep that in mind. You can close this in favour of 93 if you want.

[philsturgeon]

Cheers. I bumped the issue and will merge when I get it, then release 0.10.0