Use native json_encode to convert treeView objects to JSON.

This should improve the performance.

src/Helpers/Trees/TreeViewNode.php

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ use App\Helpers\Trees\TreeViewNodeState;
  * This class represents a node for the bootstrap treeview node.
  * When you serialize an array of these objects to JSON, you can use the serialized data in data for the treeview.
  */
-class TreeViewNode
+class TreeViewNode implements \JsonSerializable
 {
     protected $text;
     protected $href;
@@ -206,4 +206,32 @@ class TreeViewNode
 
         return $this;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @inheritDoc
+     */
+    public function jsonSerialize()
+    {
+        $ret = [
+            'text' => $this->text
+        ];
+
+        if($this->href !== null) {
+            $ret['href'] = $this->href;
+        }
+
+        if($this->tags !== null) {
+            $ret['tags'] = $this->tags;
+        }
+
+        if($this->nodes !== null) {
+            $ret['nodes'] = $this->nodes;
+        }
+
+        if($this->state !== null) {
+            $ret['state'] = $this->state;
+        }
+
+        return $ret;
+    }
 }

src/Helpers/Trees/TreeViewNodeState.php

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 namespace App\Helpers\Trees;
 
-class TreeViewNodeState
+class TreeViewNodeState implements \JsonSerializable
 {
     /** @var bool|null */
     protected $checked = null;
@@ -73,4 +73,25 @@ class TreeViewNodeState
     {
         $this->selected = $selected;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @inheritDoc
+     */
+    public function jsonSerialize()
+    {
+        $ret = [];
+        if ($this->selected !== null) {
+            $ret['selected'] = $this->selected;
+        }
+
+        if($this->disabled !== null) {
+            $ret['disabled'] = $this->disabled;
+        }
+
+        if($this->expanded !== null) {
+            $ret['expanded'] = $this->expanded;
+        }
+
+        return $ret;
+    }
 }