bug: removeNullProperties in JSONSerializer removes non-recursive arrays

[mgkimsal]

#420

I've seen others with the same error messages I was seeing yesterday

"CustomerRef is missing" from posting an Invoice object.

Using JSON, the serializer 'removeNullProperties' method was filtering out the "CustomerRef" key/value, because the value itself was not a 'recurrsiveArray' (typo there - wasn't sure if I should change that too?)

Added a test to validate/demonstrate what I need (and assume should be correct behavior).

If there's a better way to fix this, please let me know.

I can't be the only one who's hit this, but... I've also been able to simply create an invoice for a customer for 2 days now, and traced it down to this.

[mgkimsal]

Looking at this more, I'm guessing more people use a 'loose collection' style... ?

Invoice::create([
  'CustomerRef'=>['value'=>58],
  'Lines'=>[],// etc
]);

and perhaps this wasn't/isn't a problem?

I was/am using code more like this...

        $customerRef = new IPPReferenceType();
        $customerRef->value = $qbCustomer->Id;
        $customerRef->name = $qbCustomer->FullyQualifiedName;

        $qbInvoice = new IPPInvoice();
        $qbInvoice->CustomerRef = $customerRef;
...
        $qbInvoice->Lines = []; // multiple IPPLines there
        $quickbooks->Add($qbInvoice);

This is where I kept getting "CustomerRef is missing" errors, because the Add() call something that eventually gets down to a serializer - XML or JSON. The XML one never worked for me...

Trying to get property 'CustomLogger' of non-object in .../vendor/quickbooks/v3-php-sdk/src/Core/Http/Serialization/XmlObjectSerializer.php

When I discovered you could swap with ->useJson() it seemed to get much farther than that, and I got real 'error messages' back - I tried to dig in to the XmlObjectSerializer.php a bit more but... there's some magic going on there that I couldn't get past.

This was a problem for me on both PHP 7.4.20 and 8.0.6. The 'fix' I have works in both cases.