New in Symfony 5.3: Inlined Serialization Context

Contributed by
Maxime Steinhausser
in #39399.

The Serializer component provides a mechanism to configure the way data is
serialized/deserialized: the context options. These options are passed as an
optional argument of the serialize/deserialize methods.

In Symfony 5.3 we’ve improved the serializer so you can define the context
as part of the mapping information
thanks to a new SerializerContext
annotation/attribute.

For example, to define how some datetime property should be formatted, use the
following:

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use SymfonyComponentSerializerAnnotation as Serializer;
use SymfonyComponentSerializerNormalizerDateTimeNormalizer;

class SomeClass
{
/**
* @SerializerContext({ DateTimeNormalizer::FORMAT_KEY = ‚Y-m-d‘ })
*/
public DateTime $date;

// In PHP 8 applications you can use PHP attributes instead:
#[SerializerContext([DateTimeNormalizer::FORMAT_KEY => ‚Y-m-d‘])]
public DateTime $date;
}

The annotation/attribute supports different contexts for normalization/denormalization
and it can also define serialization groups:

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#[SerializerContext(
normalizationContext: [DateTimeNormalizer::FORMAT_KEY => ‚Y-m-d‘],
denormalizationContext: [DateTimeNormalizer::FORMAT_KEY => DateTime::COOKIE]
)]
public DateTime $date;

#[SerializerContext(
normalizationContext: [DateTimeNormalizer::FORMAT_KEY => DateTime::RFC3339],
groups: [‚extended‘]
)]
public DateTime $date;

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