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blt909 opened this issue Aug 26, 2015 · 7 comments
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Serialization groups for self-referenced doctrine entity #244

blt909 opened this issue Aug 26, 2015 · 7 comments

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@blt909
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blt909 commented Aug 26, 2015

Hello,

I wonder if it is possible to embed a relation from an entity to the same entity and have different properties shown on GET operation.
I need to get a full user with related users having fewer properties in.

The sample class :

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 * @ORM\Table(name="user")
 */
class User
{
    /**
     * @Groups({"userN", "fewerN",})
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    protected $id;

    /**
     * @Groups({"userN", "userD"})
     * @Assert\Email
     */
    protected $email;

/**
     * @Groups({"userN","userD", "fewerN"})
     * @ORM\Column(type="string", unique=false, nullable=true)
     */
    private $pseudo;

    /**
     * @Groups({"userN", "fewerN"})
     * @Gedmo\Slug(fields={"pseudo"}, unique=true)
     * @ORM\Column(type="string",length=255, unique=true)
     */
    private $slug;

    /**
     * @Groups({"userN","userD"})
     * @ORM\Column(name="mobile", type="string", nullable=true)
     * @Assert\Type(type="string")
     */
    private $mobile;

    /**
     * @Groups({"userN","userD"})
     * @ORM\Column(name="gender", type="string", nullable=true)
     * @Assert\Type(type="string")
     */
    private $gender;

   /**
     * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="User", mappedBy="myFriends")
     **/
    private $friendsWithMe;


    /**
     * @Groups({"fewerN","userD"})
     * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="User", inversedBy="friendsWithMe")
     * @ORM\JoinTable(name="friends",
     *      joinColumns={@ORM\JoinColumn(name="friend_id", referencedColumnName="id")},
     *      inverseJoinColumns={@ORM\JoinColumn(name="friendwith_id", referencedColumnName="id")}
     *      )
     **/
    private $myFriends;

}

The ressource definition I thinked about :

resource.user:
        parent:         "api.resource"
        arguments:      [ "AppBundle\\Entity\\User" ]
        calls:
            -   method:         "initNormalizationContext"
                arguments:      [ { groups: [ "userN", "fewerN" ] } ]
            -   method:         "initDenormalizationContext"
                arguments:      [ { groups: [ "userD"] } ]
        tags:      [ { name: "api.resource" } ]

The wanted result :

{
  "@context": "/api/contexts/User",
  "@id": "/api/users/3",
  "@type": "User",
  "email": "someone@fxlan.com",
  "pseudo": "someone",
  "slug": "someone",
  "mobile": "+33666666666",
  "gender": "male",
  "myFriends": [
    {
      "@id": "/api/users/2",
      "@type": "User",
      "pseudo": "somebody",
      "slug": "somebody",
      "myFriends": []
    }
  ]
}

The actual result :

{
  "@context": "/api/contexts/User",
  "@id": "/api/users/3",
  "@type": "User",
  "email": "someone@fxlan.com",
  "pseudo": "someone",
  "slug": "someone",
  "mobile": "+33666666666",
  "gender": "male",
  "myFriends": [
    {
      "@id": "/api/users/2",
      "@type": "User",
      "email": "somebody@fxlan.com",
      "pseudo": "somebody",
      "slug": "somebody",
      "mobile": "+33666666666",
      "gender": "male",
      "myFriends": []
    }
  ]
}

I think there is something I don't understand, but maybe there's a known recipe for that use case.

Thank you.
@dunglas
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dunglas commented Aug 26, 2015

Hello,

The only solution for now for such case is creating a custom normalizer.

@blt909
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blt909 commented Aug 27, 2015

Ok I'll try that.
Is there any API bundle doc ressource regarding registering a custom normalizer that I missed?
Or perhaps it is the standard symfony procedure?

@theofidry
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You can find examples of custom normalizer in the bundle:

But otherwise it's pretty much the Symfony procedure: Symfony Serializer Component.

@blt909
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blt909 commented Aug 27, 2015

@theofidry thanks

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@teohhanhui
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@dunglas Would be good if we can hook into the metadata process to modify things (e.g. add parent and children in the form of IRI for self-referencing relation)? Will it be possible once your rewrite to use the Symfony PropertyInfo component is complete?

@teohhanhui
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I suppose it's already possible with a custom metadata loader (implementing Dunglas\ApiBundle\Mapping\Loader\LoaderInterface).

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@vipulw2011
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@dunglas I am also facing the same issue and require exactly same. How do I do it ? Is there any example for it ?

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