Curl Response handling with Guzzle 6.2 with Laravel 5.3 - php

Question

I am trying to obtain a JSON response from an end point using Guzzle 6.2 with Laravel 5.3.
I am using the following code to make a get request:
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client([
'base_uri' => 'https://192.xx.xxx.xx6/',
'timeout' => 2.0
]);
$response = $client->request('GET',
'/fineract-provider/api/v1/clients/388?tenantIdentifier=default&pretty=true', [
'verify' => false,
'auth' => ['<username>', '<password>']
]
);
var_dump($response);
Which outputs the following response:
Response {#282
-reasonPhrase: "OK"
-statusCode: 200
-headers: array:7 [
"Server" => array:1 [
0 => "Apache-Coyote/1.1"
]
"Access-Control-Allow-Origin" => array:1 [
0 => "*"
]
"Access-Control-Allow-Methods" => array:1 [
0 => "GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS"
]
"Content-Type" => array:1 [
0 => "application/json"
]
"Transfer-Encoding" => array:1 [
0 => "chunked"
]
"Vary" => array:1 [
0 => "Accept-Encoding"
]
"Date" => array:1 [
0 => "Sat, 04 Feb 2017 15:51:10 GMT"
]
]
-headerNames: array:7 [
"server" => "Server"
"access-control-allow-origin" => "Access-Control-Allow-Origin"
"access-control-allow-methods" => "Access-Control-Allow-Methods"
"content-type" => "Content-Type"
"transfer-encoding" => "Transfer-Encoding"
"vary" => "Vary"
"date" => "Date"
]
-protocol: "1.1"
-stream: Stream {#280
-stream: stream resource #297
wrapper_type: "PHP"
stream_type: "TEMP"
mode: "w+b"
unread_bytes: 0
seekable: true
uri: "php://temp"
options: []
}
-size: null
-seekable: true
-readable: true
-writable: true
-uri: "php://temp"
-customMetadata: []
}
}
But this is not the response I expect. However, when I make the same request in my browser it gives the correct output as below:
What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

The Response object contains more information than just the response. You can get the actual output like this:
$output = (string)$response->getBody();
It might be necessary (in certain cases) to cast the result to a string, because the actual result is a stream.
Guzzle documentation: Responses