[5.1] Request object is not serializing

[SachinAgarwal1337]

I have a queued Job which accepts Request object. But I get error stating:

Serialization of 'Closure' is not allowed

Tried Debugging, found out that Request object is not getting serialized.
Plus, It is an object, why is it getting as Closure.?

[GrahamCampbell]

The request object cannot be serialized. This is because it contains properties which contain objects containing closures.

[GrahamCampbell]

You can get all the data out the request by writing (string) $request though.

[SachinAgarwal1337]

I got it from doing $request->all()

[sjors-bootmine]

Dirty hack

 <?php
  namespace App\Support;

  use Closure;
  use stdClass;

  class SerializableRequest
  {

      public static function serialize($request)
      {
          $res = new stdClass();
          foreach ($request as $key => $value) {
              if (!$value instanceof Closure) {
                  $res->{$key} = $value;
              }
          }
          return serialize($res);
      }
      
      public static function unserialize($str)
      {
          // casts stdClass back to Request
          $className       = 'Illuminate\\Http\\Request';
          $classNameLength = strlen($className);
          return unserialize(
              preg_replace(
                  '/^O:\d+:"[^"]++"/',
                  "O:$classNameLength:\"$className\"",
                  $str
              )
          );
      }
  }

usage :

    use App\Support\SerializableRequest;
    
    $str = SerializableRequest::serialize($request);
    
    $request = SerializableRequest::unserialize($str);

[sjors-bootmine]

Please be aware that if your original request had a json content type the request object might not function as expected.
Use: $request->headers->remove('CONTENT_TYPE'); as a fix