Conditional unset from Guzzle response - php

Question

I've seen a few questions and the ones worth referencing
How can i delete object from json file with PHP based on ID
How do you remove an array element in a foreach loop?
How to delete object from array inside foreach loop?
Unset not working in multiple foreach statements (PHP)
The last two from the list are closer to what I'm intending to do.
I've got a variable names $rooms which is storing data that comes from a particular API using Guzzle
$rooms = Http::post(...);
If I do
$rooms = json_decode($rooms);
this is what I get
If I do
$rooms = json_decode($rooms, true);
this is what I get
Now sometimes the group exists in the same level as objectId, visibleOn, ... and it can assume different values
So, what I intend to do is delete from $rooms when
group isn't set (so that specific value, for example, would have to be deleted)
group doesn't have the value bananas.
Inspired in the last two questions from the initial list
foreach($rooms as $k1 => $room_list) {
foreach($room_list as $k2 => $room){
if(isset($room['group'])){
if($room['group'] != "bananas"){
unset($rooms[$k1][$k2]);
}
} else {
unset($rooms[$k1][$k2]);
}
}
}
Note that $room['group'] needs to be changed to $room->group depending on if we're passing true in the json_decode() or not.
This is the ouput I get if I dd($rooms); after that previous block of code
Instead, I'd like to have the same result that I've shown previously in $rooms = json_decode($rooms);, except that instead of having the 100 records it'd give only the ones that match the two desired conditions.

Answer 1

If I am not totally wrong, then this should do the trick for you:
$rooms = json_decode($rooms);
$rooms->results = array_values(array_filter($rooms->results, function($room) {
return property_exists($room, 'group') && $room->group != "banana";
}));
Here is a verbose and commented version of this one above:
$rooms = json_decode($rooms);
// first lets filter our set of data
$filteredRooms = array_filter($rooms->results, function($room) {
// add your criteria for a valid room entry
return
property_exists($room, 'group') // the property group exists
&& $room->group == "banana"; // and its 'banana'
});
// If you want to keep the index of the entry just remove the next line
$filteredRooms = array_values($filteredRooms);
// overwrite the original results with the filtered set
$rooms->results = $filteredRooms;