Conditional unset from Guzzle response

Question

I've seen a few questions and the ones worth referencing

The last two from the list are closer to what I'm intending to do.

I've got a variable names $rooms which is storing data that comes from a particular API using Guzzle

$rooms = Http::post(...);

If I do

$rooms = json_decode($rooms);

this is what I get

If I do

$rooms = json_decode($rooms, true);

this is what I get

Now sometimes the group exists in the same level as objectId, visibleOn, ... and it can assume different values

So, what I intend to do is delete from $rooms when

group isn't set (so that specific value, for example, would have to be deleted)
group doesn't have the value bananas.

Inspired in the last two questions from the initial list

foreach($rooms as $k1 => $room_list) {
    foreach($room_list as $k2 => $room){
        if(isset($room['group'])){
            if($room['group'] != "bananas"){
                unset($rooms[$k1][$k2]);
            }
        } else {
            unset($rooms[$k1][$k2]);
        }
    }
}

Note that $room['group'] needs to be changed to $room->group depending on if we're passing true in the json_decode() or not.

This is the ouput I get if I dd($rooms); after that previous block of code

Instead, I'd like to have the same result that I've shown previously in $rooms = json_decode($rooms);, except that instead of having the 100 records it'd give only the ones that match the two desired conditions.

So, basically you just want `if( !isset($room['group']) || $room['group'] != "bananas" )` …? — CBroe, Mar 22 '21 at 10:49
@CBroe right, that'd simplify the condition. But the problem isn't in that logic but the output — Tiago Martins Peres, Mar 22 '21 at 10:58
I didn’t see a `group` anywhere on any of these screenshots you have shown, so how are we supposed to tell what is going wrong now? Provide a proper [mre] of the issue, please. — CBroe, Mar 22 '21 at 11:03
instead of converting into array from object have you tried to change it to collection provided by laravel then use the forget method — bhucho, Mar 22 '21 at 19:46
@bhucho «instead of converting into array from object have you tried to change it to collection provided by laravel then use the forget method », I haven't tried that — Tiago Martins Peres, Mar 22 '21 at 20:04

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 24 '21 at 13:23

If I am not totally wrong, then this should do the trick for you:

$rooms = json_decode($rooms);
$rooms->results = array_values(array_filter($rooms->results, function($room) {
    return property_exists($room, 'group') && $room->group != "banana";
}));

Here is a verbose and commented version of this one above:

$rooms = json_decode($rooms);

// first lets filter our set of data
$filteredRooms = array_filter($rooms->results, function($room) {
    // add your criteria for a valid room entry
    return
        property_exists($room, 'group') // the property group exists
        && $room->group == "banana";    // and its 'banana'
});

// If you want to keep the index of the entry just remove the next line
$filteredRooms = array_values($filteredRooms);

// overwrite the original results with the filtered set
$rooms->results = $filteredRooms;

Conditional unset from Guzzle response

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