Core: Feature suggestion: support property level normalization/denormalization context

[bendavies]

Usage: being able to specify date formats on date times.

/**
 * @ApiProperty(
 *  attributes={
 *      "normalization_context": {
 *          "datetime_format": "Y-m-d"
 *      }
 *  }
 * )
 */

Secondary, could we default the date time format if the doctrine type was date as opposed to datetime?

[soyuka]

Steps that should make this work:

1. create a new Normalizer that is
   
   
   
   • metadata-aware
   
   
   • supports datetime class
   
   
2. parse metadata
3. instantiate a DateTimeNormalizer with the format given as constructor argument

Currently I use the following workaround:

• my own Date classes (extends DateTime) with __toString() methods to get proper format
• my own DateTimeNormalizer (extends Syfmony's DateTimeNormalizer) to add to the supported types my own classes

[raresserban]

No updates on this?

[teohhanhui]

@raresserban It'd require property-level context support in Symfony Serializer first. Please open a feature request with Symfony if you're keen to see this happen.

Relevant comments:

• https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/23932#issuecomment-323688557
• https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/27933#issuecomment-404496718