fetchall returns stdClass object in laravel

Question

I'm executing a query to a db2 ibm database in Laravel.

call STOREDPROC.GET('leaders', '{"params": ""}', 'lead_management', 'FR');

The problem is that the fetchAll() returns an array of stdClass object.

Array ( 
    [0] => stdClass Object ( 
        [noref] => 368 
        [nofab] => FORT 
        [actionname] => FORT BP720 
        [longactionname] => Epargne fort 
        [startat] => 1999-10-29 
        [endat] => 1999-10-29 
        [monthduration] => 0 
        [kam] => CTER 
        [cls] => SDO 
        [status] => O 
        [deletebyte] => 
    )
) 

That's nice and all, but I'd rather get an array instead. I have to send the data through a http request and unfortunately, the data received at the other end of the request returns as a stream.

So how do I make fetchAll return an array instead of an stdObject class ?

I have tried to edit the options in the database.php file in laravel as such:

'options' => [
    PDO::ATTR_CASE => PDO::CASE_LOWER,
    PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => false,
    PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC
],

But it still gives me the exact same result.

This is my code to fetch the data in laravel:

private function execute($verb, $args): array
{
    $query = $this->buildQueryString($verb, $args);

    $this->buildConnection();

    $result = DB::connection('odbc')->select($query);

    return $result;
}

Answer 1

It seems the problem was the encoding on special characters causing syntax errors and thus invalid formatted json. I have made it to work by converting to utf8 encoding and then a json_decode instead of encode.

public static function convert_from_latin1_to_utf8_recursively($result)
{
    if (is_string($result)) {
        return utf8_encode($result);
    } elseif (is_array($result)) {
        $ret = [];
        foreach ($result as $i => $d) $ret[ $i ] = self::convert_from_latin1_to_utf8_recursively($d);

        return $ret;
    } elseif (is_object($result)) {
        foreach ($result as $i => $d) $result->$i = self::convert_from_latin1_to_utf8_recursively($d);

        return $result;
    } else {
        return $result;
    }
}

And then in my response:

$response = json_decode($response, true);
return $response;