[Serializer] Allow to provide (de)normalization context in mapping

[fabpot]

Q	A
Feature PR	symfony/symfony#39399
PR author(s)	@ogizanagi
Merged in	5.3-dev

[carsonbot]

Thank you for this issue. There has not been a lot of activity here for a while. Has this been resolved?

[ogizanagi]

Not yet. Let me add a section in https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/serializer.html in the upcoming days!

[alexander-schranz]

I'm currently searching for docs about the context attribute. To validate if it maybe can fix my problem I have a subentity and currently it is serialized this way:

{
   "id": 1,
   "subEntity": {
       "firstName": "Test",
       "lastName": "Test"
   }
}

instead I want to have it this way:

{
   "id": 1,
   "firstName": "Test",
   "lastName": "Test"
}

In the JMS Serializer this is done via @Inline attribute. So I'm searching for something similar in the symfony serializer as we want to replace jms with symfony here.

@ogizanagi is that something which is possible via the context attribute?

[ogizanagi]

is that something which is possible via the context attribute?

Not yet since the ObjectNormalizer does not support such a feature yet. But it'll probably help, since it'll allow to declare locally a context on the attribute of the root entity, to inline the subentity attributes if such a feature was introduced in the ObjectNormalizer.

[alexander-schranz]

@ogizanagi Thx for your response. Atleast I know that I did not miss something. Still like the #[Context] feature as I use it to have for a subentity another serialization group then for the parent entity. Nice work 👍

[wouterj]

Friendly ping @ogizanagi. Is there anything I can help you with to document this cool new attribute?

[ogizanagi]

Sorry, I didn't take the time yet to document this. Feel free to do so, otherwise I'll try to keep it in mind whenever I have some time. 🙂

[ogizanagi]

Finally took the time to document this 😅 See https://github.com/symfony/symfony-docs/pull/17345