Serializer Demystified

The Serializer is an essential tool when building APIs with Symfony. Knowing it in more detail can save you a lot of time when you want to customize how your data is handled. In this talk we will look at how the Symfony Serializer works by default by having a deeper look at the provided Normalizers and then we will look at some use cases for customizing both how data is serialized and deserialized.

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2. SensioLabs Deutschland denis.brumann@sensiolabs.de @dbrumann
12. Serializer normalize Serializer serialize() Normalizer Normalizer Normalizer Object Array supportsNormalization
13. Serializer normalize Serializer serialize() Normalizer Object Array normalize
14. Serializer normalize Serializer serialize() Normalizer Normalizer Normalizer Object Array supportsNormalization normalize
15. Serializer normalize Serializer serialize() Normalizer Object Serializer encode Encoder JSON, XML, … Array encode
20. Serializer decode Serializer deserialize() Decoder Object Serializer denormalize Denormalizer Array JSON, XML, …
28. GetSetMethodNormalizer PropertyNormalizer ObjectNormalizer JsonSerializableNormalizer AbstractObjectNormalizer AbstractNormalizer
29. GetSetMethodNormalizer get…, is…, has… set… PropertyNormalizer ObjectNormalizer
30. GetSetMethodNormalizer get…, is…, has… set… PropertyNormalizer Reflection for accessing class attributes ObjectNormalizer
31. GetSetMethodNormalizer get…, is…, has… set… PropertyNormalizer Reflection for accessing class attributes ObjectNormalizer Uses Symfony PropertyAccess: get…, is…, has… public properties add…/remove… for single entry in collections
32. PropertyNormalizer GetSetMethodNormalizer
33. PropertyNormalizer
34. PropertyNormalizer GetSetMethodNormalizer ObjectNormalizer
35. PropertyNormalizer GetSetMethodNormalizer ObjectNormalizer
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