LeveragingTheSerializer.md

Speaker: Hugo Hamon -- @hhamon https://twitter.com/hhamon

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/u/hhamon/p/leveraging-the-serializer-component

Leveraging the Serializer Component

How it works:

• Start as an object
  • Pass through as an array
  • Encode to types:
    • XML
    • JSON
    • etc...
• Deserialize, start as a type
  • Pass through as an array
  • Decode to an object

Normalizer interface

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• NormalizerInterface normalizes objects to arrays, scalars
• Denormalizer does the reverse.

Encoder Interface

• EncoderInterface encodes data into the given format
• DecoderInterface decodes a string into PHP data

Including in symfony

use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Serializer;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\GerSetMethodNormalizer;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Encoder\JsonEncoder;
use Symfony\Component\SerializerEncoder\XmlEncoder;

// TODO: Incomplete code

Using

$serializer
	->serialize($object, 'xml');

<response>
	<id/>
	<customer/>
	<reference><...</reference>
	<arrival>...</arrival>
	<!-- ... -->
</response>

Ignoring attributes

$ignore = array('id', 'customer');
// TODO: Code incomplete

Unserialize a string

$xml = '<response>...</response>';
// Convert an XML string to an array
$data = $serializer->decode($xml, 'xml');

// Convert the array to an object
$class = 'ns'
// TODO: code incomplete

Adding support for YAML

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• JMS Serializer Bundle
• Twig Helpers
• Customizing the XML root node
• Serializing an object to a single XML node
• Excluding or Exposing properties
• Managing object properties, versioning
• Offering several views of a serialized object
• Forcing the serializer to call getters & setters
• Mapping a property to another getter of setter method
• Customizing the order in which properties are serialized
• Typing properties for a complete unserialization