Merge pull request #1760 from specialtactics/feature/forward-port-res…

…ponse-array

Bring this forward from v2

src/Http/Response/Factory.php

@@ -148,6 +148,38 @@ public function item($item, $transformer = null, $parameters = [], Closure $afte
         return new Response($item, 200, [], $binding);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Bind an arbitrary array to a transformer and start building a response.
+     *
+     * @param array $array
+     * @param $transformer
+     * @param array $parameters
+     * @param Closure|null $after
+     *
+     * @return Response
+     */
+    public function array(array $array, $transformer = null, $parameters = [], Closure $after = null)
+    {
+        if ($parameters instanceof \Closure) {
+            $after = $parameters;
+            $parameters = [];
+        }
+
+        // For backwards compatibility, allow no transformer
+        if ($transformer) {
+            // Use the PHP stdClass for this purpose, as a work-around, since we need to register a class binding
+            $class = 'stdClass';
+            // This will convert the array into an stdClass
+            $array = (object) $array;
+
+            $binding = $this->transformer->register($class, $transformer, $parameters, $after);
+        } else {
+            $binding = null;
+        }
+
+        return new Response($array, 200, [], $binding);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Bind a paginator to a transformer and start building a response.
      *