Serializer
Library for (de-)serializing data of any complexity (supports JSON, and XML) (by schmittjoh)
JsonMapper
Map nested JSON structures onto PHP classes (by cweiske)
| Serializer | JsonMapper | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 4 | |
| 2,302 | 1,542 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.9 | 6.5 | |
| about 2 months ago | 16 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | OpenSSL License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Serializer
Posts with mentions or reviews of Serializer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-20.
- Data-Mapper: A package for fast mapping of strong-typed objects
- brick/json-mapper: map JSON data to strongly typed PHP DTOs
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Design Decisions: Why use final classes
Making a class "final" is always a bad decision IMO. You would never know how will other people use your library. For example, we used JMSSerializerBundle and wanted to extend DateHandler to make it not to throw exceptions if a date string is invalid. But the class is final. So we had to just copy-paste it :(
- Symfony serializer is tedious
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Array -> Entity
Or this popular alternative: https://jmsyst.com/libs/serializer
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PHP libraries and tools
JMS Serializer: This library allows you to (de-)serialize data of any complexity. Currently, it supports XML and JSON.
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Yet another Data-Transfer-Object package
Only took a very brief look, but it looks nice. I like that the DTO class isn't required to extend anything, and that it seems to be for real DTOs used for actual transfer of data between systems - not 'local dtos'. It feels like this might be more comparable to something like schmittjoh/serializer rather than spatie/data-transfer-object.
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PHP foreach loop to XML
When it's time to create the PDF, convert the object structure to an XML using an already existing serializer (like JMS or symfony serializer) or do this by hand.
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Is there a better way to connect to an API?
One frequently used serializer is JMS Serializer which allows you to convert JSON or XML to objects (or the other way around if needed). You can then use the objects in your application.
JsonMapper
Posts with mentions or reviews of JsonMapper.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-20.
- Data-Mapper: A package for fast mapping of strong-typed objects
- brick/json-mapper: map JSON data to strongly typed PHP DTOs
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Development process for external APIs
Besides files structure and design patterns, I like to use this amazing class to map json response payloads to pho classes https://github.com/cweiske/jsonmapper
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Serializer and JsonMapper you can also consider the following projects:
Fractal - Output complex, flexible, AJAX/RESTful data structures.
data-transfer-object - Data transfer objects with batteries included
PHP Collections - General Purpose Collection Library for PHP
Ardent - A Collections library for PHP.
Serializard - Flexible serializer encouraging good object design
Arrayy - 🗃 Array manipulation library for PHP, called Arrayy!
CRUDlex - CRUDlex is an easy to use CRUD generator for Symfony 4 and Silex 2 which is great for auto generated admin pages
Cake Collection - [READ-ONLY] Collection library in CakePHP. This repo is a split of the main code that can be found in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp
php-dto - A data transfer object inspired by Rust's serde
PINQ - PHP Integrated Query, a real LINQ library for PHP