Default context for serialization

[nuxwin]

Hello ;

Does it is possible to set default context when building the serialiser?

Intent: For all our models, we want force serialization of null properties. Right now, we must pass a context object in each of our controllers. For instance:

...
$package = $this->getPackageService()->getPackage($this->getRequest()->query->getInt('package_id'));

$instance = new ApsInstance();
$instance
        ->setPackage($package)
        ->setSettings($this->getInstanceSettingService()->getSettingObjectsFromMetadataFile($package));

$context = new SerializationContext();
$context->setSerializeNull(true);

$json =  $this->getSerializer()->serialize($instance, 'json', $context);
...

Since we want such context for every serialization process, we would be able to do something like this in our Serializer service factory:

namespace iMSCP\Service;

use iMSCP_Registry as Registry;
use JMS\Serializer\SerializerBuilder;
use JMS\Serializer\SerializationContext;
use Zend\ServiceManager\FactoryInterface;
use Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceLocatorInterface;

/**
 * Class SerializerServiceFactory
 * @package iMSCP\Service
 */
class SerializerServiceFactory implements FactoryInterface
{
    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function createService(ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator)
    {
        $serviceLocator->get('Annotation');
        $config = Registry::get('config');

        $defaultContext = new SerializationContext();
        $defaultContext->setSerializeNull(true);

        return SerializerBuilder::create()
            ->setDefaultSerializationContext($defaultContext)
            ->setCacheDir(CACHE_PATH . '/serializer')
            ->setDebug($config['DEVMODE'])
            ->build();
    }
}

See here the setDefaultSerializationContext() method which is not provided ATM. This should be the default context which could be overridden by passing a context explicitely when serializing data.

Thanks you.

[nuxwin]

Not the right place. See schmittjoh/serializer#528