I recently encountered an issue with the Pusher PHP Server library in my Laravel application.
The error I faced is:
TypeError: json_decode(): Argument #1 ($json) must be of type string, GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Stream given in /var/www/-my-app/vendor/pusher/pusher-php-server/src/Pusher.php:639
Problem
The error occurs because the json_decode function is receiving a GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Stream instead of a string. This typically happens when working with HTTP responses in Guzzle.
Solution I Found
To resolve this issue, I modified the post method in the Pusher library to ensure the response body is converted to a string before passing it to json_decode. Here’s the modified code:
I recently encountered an issue with the Pusher PHP Server library in my Laravel application.
The error I faced is:
Problem The error occurs because the json_decode function is receiving a GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Stream instead of a string. This typically happens when working with HTTP responses in Guzzle.
Solution I Found To resolve this issue, I modified the post method in the Pusher library to ensure the response body is converted to a string before passing it to json_decode. Here’s the modified code:
My Dilemma While this solution works, modifying vendor files is not recommended because these changes will be lost during package updates.
How can I fix this permanently to avoid bugs when Pusher package is updated?