Jmsserializerbundle: How use the @Groups ?

[Chrysweel]

Hello.

I have problems with this issue.. I want to serialize an entity and only show some fields.

My entity:

....
use JMS\Serializer\Annotation\Groups;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 * @ORM\Table(name="Channel")
 */
class Channel
{
    /**
     * @var integer $id
     * @Groups({"list", "details"})
     * @ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    private $id;

    /**
     * @Groups({"details"})
     * @var string $nombre
     * @ORM\Column(name="nombre", type="string", length=255)
     */
    private $nombre;

    /**
     * @Groups({"list"})
     * @var string $url
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="url", type="string", length=255)
     */
    private $url;

And in My controller:

use JMS\Serializer\SerializationContext;

/**
 * Channel controller.
 *
 */
class ChannelController extends FOSRestController{

    /**
     * Finds and displays a Channel entity.
     *  @ApiDoc(
     *      description="show a channel by id",
     *      output="....Entity\Channel",
     *      statusCodes={
     *         200="Returned when successful",
     *         404="Unable to find Channel entity"
     *     }
     *  )
     * @Cache(expires="+60", public="true")
     * @ParamConverter("channel", class="ApiBundle:Channel")
     */
    public function showAction(Channel $channel, Request $request)
    {
        $serializer = $this->container->get('serializer');
        $channel = $serializer->serialize($channel, 'json', SerializationContext::create()->setGroups(array('list')));

        $view = $this->view($channel, 200);
        return $this->handleView($view);
    }

But my problem is the following:
I think that this code is serialize twice... because my result is:

"{\"id\":1,\"url\":\"url1\"}"

And the solution correct is:

"{"id":1,"url":"url1"}"

Somebody can help me ? Thanks :)

[wiistriker]

You shouldn't serialize entity, it's done by FOSRestBundle

public function showAction(Channel $channel, Request $request)
    {
        $view = $this->view($channel, 200);
        $view->setSerializerGroups(array('list'));

        return $this->handleView($view);
    }

Or even use @View(serializerGroups={"group1", "group2"})

[Chrysweel]

Thanks for to reply @wiistriker .

The method setSerializerGroups is in the class FOS\RestBundle\Controller\Annotations\View.
But I use the class FOS\RestBundle\View as in the documentation ...
https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle/blob/master/Resources/doc/2-the-view-layer.md#introduction

So? .. How can I use the method setSerializerGroups... ?

I tried this in my controller:

[...]
use FOS\RestBundle\Controller\Annotations as Rest;
use FOS\RestBundle\Controller\FOSRestController;
use FOS\RestBundle\View;

class ChannelController extends FOSRestController
{
    /**
     * Finds and displays a Channel entity.
     * @Rest\View(serializerGroups={"list"})
     * @ParamConverter("channel", class="ApiBundle:Channel")
     */
    public function showAction(Channel $channel, Request $request)
    {
        $view = $this->view($channel, 200);     
        return $this->handleView($view);
    }
}

But I get the entity with all fields...

[Baachi]

Have a look at the Exclusion Policy option.

Acme\\DemoBundle\\Entity\\Channel:
    exclusion_policy: ALL
    properties:
        id:
            expose: true
            groups: ["channel_list", "channel_show"]
        title:
            expose: true
            groups: ["channel_show"]
# ...

[stof]

@Chrysweel The View class (used by your $view variable) has a setSerializationContext method: https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle/blob/master/View/View.php#L166

[Chrysweel]

@Baachi, @stof thanks for to reply.

@Baachi But my problem is to filter by group. The annotation Exclusion Policy works correctly. But my problem is when I want to show only the "list" group for example.

[stof]

@Chrysweel Set the serialization context in your View instance:

// This is the context you created in your code above when serializing by hand
$context = SerializationContext::create()->setGroups(array('list')); 

$view = // ...
$view->setSerializationContext($context);

return $this->handleView($view);

[Chrysweel]

Ok. issue solved. Thank you very much @stof.

Also issue closed https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle/issues/521#issuecomment-22098058