From 3a598311af1ce3eca8ebb56157f6198147714dce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jeffreyqw <49655798+jeffreyqw@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 15:26:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] remove 'method_exists' clause

---
 src/php/lib/Grpc/AbstractCall.php | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/php/lib/Grpc/AbstractCall.php b/src/php/lib/Grpc/AbstractCall.php
index 61e7898176b..6a056323732 100644
--- a/src/php/lib/Grpc/AbstractCall.php
+++ b/src/php/lib/Grpc/AbstractCall.php
@@ -114,12 +114,7 @@ abstract class AbstractCall
     protected function _serializeMessage($data)
     {
         // Proto3 implementation
-       if (method_exists($data, 'serializeToString')) {
-            return $data->serializeToString();
-        }
-
-        // Protobuf-PHP implementation
-        return $data->serialize();
+        return $data->serializeToString();
     }
 
     /**