Laravel HTTP Client JSON with FORCE_OBJECT set

I have a api I am trying to send to. It requires empty arrays to have curly brackets "{}" instead of regular brackets "[]".

Here is my code that i am using to post to the api:

       $sendReport = Http::withToken($authResponse)
            ->contentType('application/json')
            ->post($crashExportServer . $uploadPoint, $data)
            ->json();

$data = an array. This works, but I have the issue with the empty arrays within $data. I get an error back in regards to them. I can use json_encode and pass the parameter of "JSON_FORCE_OBJECT" and then it looks right to me. However, I'm stumped on how to do then when using the http client. I tried replacing the $data array with a string of the encoded JSON string, but that fails:

       $jsonData = json_encode($data, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT);
       $sendReport = Http::withToken($authResponse)
            ->contentType('application/json')
            ->post($crashExportServer . $uploadPoint, $jsonData)
            ->body();

Here, $jsonData is the output of, but the api doesn't like that at all. I also tried:

       $jsonData = json_encode($data, JSON_FORCE_OBJECT)
       $sendReport = Http::withToken($authResponse)
            ->contentType('application/json')
            ->post($crashExportServer . $uploadPoint, ['body' => $jsonData])
            ->body();

But the api doesn't seem to like that either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!