Fixes to Json conversion logic for empty objects

- If the object is empty, an empty json object is generated on conversion
- Fixes #223

lib/PayPal/Common/PayPalModel.php

@@ -162,6 +162,12 @@ class PayPalModel
                 $ret[$k] = $v;
             }
         }
+        // If the array is empty, which means an empty object,
+        // we need to convert array to StdClass object to properly
+        // represent JSON String
+        if (sizeof($ret) <= 0) {
+            $ret = new PayPalModel();
+        }
         return $ret;
     }
 

tests/PayPal/Test/Common/NestedClass.php

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ class NestedClass extends PayPalModel
 
     /**
      *
-     * @param PayPal\Test\Common\ArrayClass $info
+     * @param \PayPal\Test\Common\ArrayClass $info
      */
     public function setInfo($info)
     {
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class NestedClass extends PayPalModel
 
     /**
      *
-     * @return PayPal\Test\Common\ArrayClass
+     * @return \PayPal\Test\Common\ArrayClass
      */
     public function getInfo()
     {

tests/PayPal/Test/Common/PayPalModelTest.php

@@ -184,6 +184,27 @@ class PayPalModelTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
 
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @test
+     */
+    public function testEmptyObject()
+    {
+        $child = new SimpleModelTestClass();
+        $child->setField1(null);
+
+        $parent = new ContainerModelTestClass();
+        $parent->setField1("parent");
+        $parent->setNested1($child);
+
+        $this->assertEquals('{"field1":"parent","nested1":{}}',
+            $parent->toJSON());
+
+        $parentCopy = new ContainerModelTestClass();
+        $parentCopy->fromJson($parent->toJSON());
+        $this->assertEquals($parent, $parentCopy);
+
+    }
+
     /**
      * @test
      */