Unserialize php in Javascript Nodejs


Unserialize php in Javascript Nodejs

Unserialize() is an opinionated function from PHP. The bad part is that beeing opinionated to PHP, when you need to go out from this environment, you can encounter some problems.

In the example below I used php-unserialize NPM Library.

import PhpUnserialize from 'php-unserialize';

const serialized = 'a:0:{}'
const jsObject = PhpUnserialize.unserialize(serialized);
console.log(jsObject) // {}

What happens if your serialized string contains special characters ?

Yeah, it fails!

In order to solve that we can use encoding NPM library.

import encoding from 'encoding';

export function convertToUtf8Win1252(str) {
  return encoding.convert(str, 'WINDOWS-1252').toString();
}

So mixing both functions:

export function unserializePhp(str) {
  return PhpUnserialize
    .unserialize(convertToUtf8Win1252(str));
}

How to handle array deserialization

Using php-unserialize library has some drawbacks

Notes

Note that array() will be converted to {} and not []. That can be discussed as array() in PHP has various significations. A choice had to be done, but it may change in the future (cf. next point).

A less obvious conversion is array(‘a’, ‘b’) which will be converted to {“0”: “a”, “1”: “b”}. Quite annoying, and it will be fixed if necessary (this means I won’t work on this issue unless you really need it, but I agree this is not normal behavior).

Having this context you cannot handle array functions, instead manipulate the objects:

const objectArray = {
  1: {foo: "bar1"},
  2: {foo: "bar2"},
}

Object.keys(objectArray).forEach((key) => {
  console.log(objectArray[key].foo)
});

// Output
// bar1
// bar2

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