serializer vs JsonMapper

serializer

Handles serializing and deserializing data structures, including object graphs, into array structures or other formats like XML and JSON. (by symfony)

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JsonMapper

Map nested JSON structures onto PHP classes (by cweiske)

Data Structure and Storage PHP JSON Hydration Deserialization

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serializer		JsonMapper
	Project
2	Mentions	4
2,450	Stars	1,541
0.9%	Growth	-
8.9	Activity	6.5
3 days ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
PHP	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	OpenSSL License

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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
11 projects | /r/PHP | 20 Jun 2023
brick/json-mapper: map JSON data to strongly typed PHP DTOs
10 projects | /r/PHP | 15 Feb 2023

Most notable differences with symfony/serializer:

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
11 projects | /r/PHP | 20 Jun 2023
brick/json-mapper: map JSON data to strongly typed PHP DTOs
10 projects | /r/PHP | 15 Feb 2023
Development process for external APIs
2 projects | /r/laravel | 16 Feb 2022

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:

Valinor - PHP library that helps to map any input into a strongly-typed value object structure.

Fractal - Output complex, flexible, AJAX/RESTful data structures.

data-transfer-object - Data transfer objects with batteries included

Serializer - Library for (de-)serializing data of any complexity (supports JSON, and XML)

PHP Collections - General Purpose Collection Library for PHP

doctrine-laminas-hydrator - Doctrine hydrators for Laminas applications

Serializard - Flexible serializer encouraging good object design

ObjectHydrator - Object Hydration library to create Command and Query objects.

CRUDlex - CRUDlex is an easy to use CRUD generator for Symfony 4 and Silex 2 which is great for auto generated admin pages

psalm-plugin-doctrine - Stubs to let Psalm understand Doctrine better

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