[PHP] - Do not treat \stdClass as a Model.

[Souvent22]

Description

When using a generic type: "object" in my swagger file for a property and then setting that property such as:

$my_data = new \stdClass();
$my_data->hi = "world";
$client->setMyField($my_data);

The generator throws an error saying "no function ::getFormatters" because it is attempting to run that static function on the generic PHP standard class, which does not exist.

Swagger-codegen version

Version 2.3

Swagger declaration file content or url

{
  "definitions": {
    "Example": {
      "description": "This is an example for nested objects.",
      "properties": {
        "mapping_data": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Mapping data as an object"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Command line used for generation

java -jar swagger-codegen.jar generate -l php -o output-dir -i swagger.json

Steps to reproduce

Just run the swagger generator for php

Suggest a fix/enhancement

In ObjectSerialization#sanitizeForSerialization add this section above is_object check.

// SNIP!
elseif ($data instanceof \stdClass) {
			foreach ($data as $property => $value) {
				$data->$property = self::sanitizeForSerialization($value);
			}
			return $data;
		} 

I was going to create a patch when I had a chance.
We should also include a guard against circular references; at the same time, maybe we just let the stack overflow and leave that issue to the developer.

[wing328]

@Souvent22 thanks for reporting the issue. Looking forward to the PR.

[leberknecht]

Site note, maybe someone finds this useful:
I have a similar problem where serializing a member that has an stdClass on it results in the error

Call to undefined method stdClass::swaggerFormats()

As a workaround i fixed it by adding this snippet in the beginning of sanitizeForSerialization

if ($data instanceof \stdClass) {
    $data = get_object_vars($data);
}

I think thats more or less doing the same like your solution. Im struggeling a bit with understanding in what cases swagger-codegen will create assoc-arrays and when it will create stdClasses.