Support for integer-keyed dictionaries about serde HOT 4 CLOSED

Greetings.

There's two parts here.

1. Numeric dictionaries should be allowed. I actually had that mostly done in a branch where I was working on allowing dictionaries to restrict their key type. Thanks for the reminder. 😄 I've finished that and merged it to master, so that should work as of the next release. (Or run dev-master for the moment.)

2. Serializing arrays of objects is on the todo list, but not yet supported. Mainly, I'm not sure if the best way to do it. It may be a separate "entry point" object, like SerdeList or something. It also ties into the desire for streaming support. I'm still unsure of the best way to do it, which is why I haven't done it yet.

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I'm using dev-master with my array-wrapper class now, and everything's working great and smooth.
And honestly, the additional wrapper class is not too much of a hassle. Great to hear that array serialization is on the todo list, but no need to rush the features.

Thanks for the library and the quick response, Larry. ❤

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I just tagged 0.5.0, so you should be safe to switch to that now.

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As of 0.5.0, a simple way to deserialize objects in an array is described below.

class Human {
  public int $height;
  public int $weight;
}

class HumanList {
  /** @var array<Human> */
  #[Field(flatten: true)]
  #[SequenceField(arrayType: Human::class)]
  public readonly array $human;
}

$json = <<<JSON
[
  {
    "height": 172,
    "weight": 67
  },
  {
    "height": 152,
    "weight": 51
  }
]
JSON;

$serde = new SerdeCommon();

/** @var HumanList $humanList */
$humanList = $serde->deserialize($json, from: "json", to: HumanList::class);

foreach ($humanList->human as $humanArray) {
  /** @var Human $human */
  $human = $serde->deserialize($humanArray, from: "array", to: Human::class);
  // code...
}

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