PHP object isset and/or empty

Is there a way to check if an object has any fields? For example, I have a soap server I am querying using a soap client and if I call a get method, I am either returned an object containing fields defining the soap query I have made otherwise I am returned object(stdClass)#3 (0) { }.

Is there a way to tell if the object has anything?

    public function get($id){
    try{
        $client = new soapclient($this->WSDL,self::getAuthorization());
        $result = $client->__soapCall('get', array('get'=> array('sys_id'=>$id)));
        if(empty($result)){$result = false; }

    }catch(SoapFault $exception){
        //echo $exception;      
        $result = false;
    } 
    return $result;
}//end get() 

This method should return either an object or false and I am only receiving an object with no fields or an object with fields.