From f297b2306ec6e1472b0ffe724241052e6d7a3a62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Strijdhorst <tim@decorrespondent.nl>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:09:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] +implement get_array for response object

---
 src/response.php | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/response.php b/src/response.php
index f7871a7..6fddc83 100644
--- a/src/response.php
+++ b/src/response.php
@@ -87,6 +87,31 @@ public function __construct() {
 public function __toString() {
 	return $this->get_json();
 }
+	
+	/**
+	 * generates an array for the whole response body
+	 *
+	 * @see jsonapi.org/format
+	 *
+	 * @return array, containing:
+	 *         - links
+	 *         - meta
+	 */
+	public function get_array() {
+		$response = array();
+		
+		// links
+		if ($this->links) {
+			$response['links'] = $this->links;
+		}
+		
+		// meta data
+		if ($this->meta_data) {
+			$response['meta'] = $this->meta_data;
+		}
+		
+		return $response;
+	}
 
 /**
  * returns the whole response body as json

From 5a5a993598e6884e51cc5d22a42cd78fe5a43262 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lode Claassen <lode@alsvanzelf.nl>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:34:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] CS indent, no functional changes

---
 src/response.php | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/response.php b/src/response.php
index 6fddc83..6e07b8f 100644
--- a/src/response.php
+++ b/src/response.php
@@ -87,31 +87,31 @@ public function __construct() {
 public function __toString() {
 	return $this->get_json();
 }
+
+/**
+ * generates an array for the whole response body
+ *
+ * @see jsonapi.org/format
+ *
+ * @return array, containing:
+ *         - links
+ *         - meta
+ */
+public function get_array() {
+	$response = array();
 	
-	/**
-	 * generates an array for the whole response body
-	 *
-	 * @see jsonapi.org/format
-	 *
-	 * @return array, containing:
-	 *         - links
-	 *         - meta
-	 */
-	public function get_array() {
-		$response = array();
-		
-		// links
-		if ($this->links) {
-			$response['links'] = $this->links;
-		}
-		
-		// meta data
-		if ($this->meta_data) {
-			$response['meta'] = $this->meta_data;
-		}
-		
-		return $response;
+	// links
+	if ($this->links) {
+		$response['links'] = $this->links;
+	}
+	
+	// meta data
+	if ($this->meta_data) {
+		$response['meta'] = $this->meta_data;
 	}
+	
+	return $response;
+}
 
 /**
  * returns the whole response body as json

From 29692cfeba79703ac3c00bc7fe71c2a82b90eec7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lode Claassen <lode@alsvanzelf.nl>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:48:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] document the new use-case

---
 examples/index.html    |  5 +++++
 examples/meta_only.php | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 examples/meta_only.php

diff --git a/examples/index.html b/examples/index.html
index d4f5a73..7ee8985 100644
--- a/examples/index.html
+++ b/examples/index.html
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ <h3>Errors</h3>
 		<li><a href="errors_all_options.php">All options</a></li>
 	</ul>
 	
+	<h3>Misc</h3>
+	<ul>
+		<li><a href="meta_only.php">Meta-only use-cases</a></li>
+	</ul>
+	
 	<footer>
 		<p><a href="https://github.com/lode/jsonapi">GitHub</a></p>
 	</footer>
diff --git a/examples/meta_only.php b/examples/meta_only.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..66544fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/meta_only.php
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?php
+
+use alsvanzelf\jsonapi;
+
+ini_set('display_errors', 1);
+error_reporting(-1);
+
+require '../vendor/autoload.php';
+
+/**
+ * there are a few use-cases for sending meta-only responses
+ * in such cases, use the response class
+ * 
+ * prefer to actually send out a resource, error or collection
+ */
+
+$jsonapi = new jsonapi\response();
+$jsonapi->add_meta('foo', 'bar');
+
+/**
+ * sending the response
+ */
+
+$jsonapi->send_response();