Exclude Strategy with Until not working exepcted with `.x`

[alexander-schranz]

Q	A
Bug report?	yes
Feature request?	no
BC Break report?	no
RFC?	no

Steps required to reproduce the problem

We are using the versioning of the jms serializer.

I first did have this:

<property name="sections" expose="true" since-version="3.0"/>
<virtual-property name="areas_without_section" serialized-name="areas" method="getAreasWithoutSections" expose="true" since-version="1.0" until-version="2.0" />
<virtual-property name="areas" serialized-name="areas" method="getAreas" expose="true" since-version="2.0" until-version="3.0" />

Then I did find out that the areas is still returned when using 3.0 version. So I did see in the docs: https://jmsyst.com/libs/serializer/master/cookbook/exclusion_strategies

There is something like 1.0.x used so I did use:

<property name="sections" expose="true" since-version="3.0"/>
<virtual-property name="areas_without_section" serialized-name="areas" method="getAreasWithoutSections" expose="true" since-version="1.0" until-version="1.x" />
<virtual-property name="areas" serialized-name="areas" method="getAreas" expose="true" since-version="2.0" until-version="2.x" />

but this didn't work the areas where not returned when requested with 2.0

Expected Result

**3.0**: Return `sections` without `areas`:

            "sections": [
                {
                    "_hash": "@string@",
                    "uuid": "@string@",
                    "name": "Section 1",
                    "areas": [
                        {
                            "_hash": "@string@",
                            "uuid": "@string@",
                            "name": "1"
                        },
                        {
                            "_hash": "@string@",
                            "uuid": "@string@",
                            "name": "1A"
                        },
                        {
                            "_hash": "@string@",
                            "uuid": "@string@",
                            "name": "2A"
                        },
                        {
                            "_hash": "@string@",
                            "uuid": "@string@",
                            "name": "2B"
                        }
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "_hash": "@string@",
                    "uuid": "@string@",
                    "name": "Section 2",
                    "areas": [
                        {
                            "_hash": "@string@",
                            "uuid": "@string@",
                            "name": "1"
                        },
                        {
                            "_hash": "@string@",
                            "uuid": "@string@",
                            "name": "1A"
                        },
                        {
                            "_hash": "@string@",
                            "uuid": "@string@",
                            "name": "2A"
                        },
                        {
                            "_hash": "@string@",
                            "uuid": "@string@",
                            "name": "2B"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],

**2.0** Return `areas` without `sections`:

            "areas": [
                {
                    "section": "Section 1",
                    "areas": [
                        "1",
                        "1A",
                        "2A",
                        "2B"
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "section": "Section 2",
                    "areas": [
                        "1",
                        "1A",
                        "2A",
                        "2B"
                    ]
                }
            ],

**1.0** Return `areas` in old format without `sections`:

            "areas": [
                "1",
                "1A",
                "2A",
                "2B",
                "1",
                "1A",
                "2A",
                "2B"
            ],

Actual Result

See above.

Current workaround

Currently I did workaround by using .9999 as until version:

        <property name="sections" expose="true" since-version="3.0"/>

        <virtual-property name="areas_without_section" serialized-name="areas" method="getAreasWithoutSections" expose="true" since-version="1.0" until-version="1.9999" />
        <virtual-property name="areas" serialized-name="areas" method="getAreas" expose="true" since-version="2.0" until-version="2.9999" />

[goetas]

The version exclusion strategy uses under the hood https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.version-compare.php

Whatever is supported by version_compare should work here.

It would be nice to move to https://github.com/composer/semver instead of version_compare

[W0rma]

I don't think that the 1.0.x example from the docs have ever worked.

It would be nice to move to https://github.com/composer/semver instead of version_compare

I gave this a try in https://github.com/schmittjoh/serializer/pull/1361 by adding a version-constraints attribute/VersionConstraints annotation which accept composer version constraints