Output

Once you have created a Bag value object, you can access the properties using object notation:

use App\Values\MyValue;

$value = new MyValue(name: 'Davey Shafik', age: 40);
$value->name; // 'Davey Shafik'

Casting to Other Types

Bag supports casting to arrays and [\Bag\Collections][./collections##extending-laravel-collections] using the Bag->toArray() and Bag->toCollection() methods.

Both methods will apply casting and mapping, as well as respect [hidden properties][./hidden].

JSON Serialization

In addition, you can serialize a Bag object to JSON using json_encode() or `Bag->toJson():

$value = MyValue::from(name: 'Davey Shafik', age: 40);

$value->toJson(); // {"name": "Davey Shafik", "age": 40}
json_encode($value, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR); // {"name": "Davey Shafik", "age": 40}

Both Bag->toJson() and json_encode() will respect [hidden properties][./hidden].