Serializing properties without groups

[kingschnulli]

This maybe related to the serializer, but I'm a bit unsure so I'm asking this question here. Let's say I have an entity Book:

/**
 * @ApiResource()
 */
class Book
{
    /**
     * @Groups({"read", "write"})
     */
    public $name;

    /**
     * @Groups("write")
     */
    public $author;

    /**
     * This property has no groups
     */
    public $foo;

    // ...
}

What I'm trying to achieve now is to serialize the $foo property, regardless of the current context groups. Is there some way to configure some kind of "default group" for properties where no group was given?

I know I could just add the group to my property, but I was hoping to configure something (or decorate something) so the serializer will return the property $foo.

TLDR: How can I define a default group for all properties?

[teohhanhui]

Just define a default group yourself? I don't think there's such functionality in the Symfony Serializer.

[kingschnulli]

Can you tell me a good place to add this using a decorator or service override? Maybe this is really a more serializer related question

[teohhanhui]

I wouldn't suggest adding the default group automatically, as it means you lose control on which properties to expose. But in order to always add the default group to the serializer context in API Platform, you can decorate the SerializerContextBuilder. 😄

[birkof]

@teohhanhui How about adding dynamically a serialization group name like entity.property on every property of a entity and to use them in ApiResource no/denormalization context?

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