Investigate and integrate Serializer 2.1.x for temporary json serialization. [#1802472]

Step 1 of The push towards JSON-LD support in Drupal
suggests to implement JSON serialization without JSON-LD support. Serializer was mentioned as a Symfony2 component that handles this. I looked into this a little back in August and it looks like we would need to have an EntityNormalizer and EntitySerializer (and possibly abstracted even further with DrupalNormalizer and DrupalSerializer).

Here's a patch with the current Serializer 2.1 branch that places the library within the path core/vendor/symfony/serializer. It hacks composer into loading Serializer for now as that was the quickest way I could get it to load.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#1	1802472-implement-serializer-normalizer-1.patch	104.64 KB	mradcliffe
	hack-in-symfony2-serializer.patch	102.7 KB	mradcliffe

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Comment #1

mradcliffe

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CreditAttribution: mradcliffe commented 4 October 2012 at 05:03

File	Size
1802472-implement-serializer-normalizer-1.patch	104.64 KB

Okay, this should probably work, but I don't think any entity implements getPropertyValues yet. I did a small test by hacking in getPropertyValues into Node.php.

Also adding a dependency onto the Entity class is probably wrong, but I'm not sure where else to put it - EntityWrapper? Or maybe it should go in TypedData and separate from entities?

Edit: whoops, patch has some evidence of me murdering kittens in it. :-)

Comment #2

Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented 11 October 2012 at 21:31

Sorry, I hadn't been watching the queue since I hadn't posted code yet, so I didn't see this issue.

I agree with the idea. I've got a good start on something using the Serializer component and custom Normalizer/Encoders. I'll be posting that as a patch soon, most likely to an issue on core queue.

I will also be posting a separate issue to include the Serializer component in core. Would you mind cleaning up your patch, removing anything that isn't directly related to adding the Symfony component? ~~We can use this issue to work on that for now.~~ I've posted an issue to core, you can post the patch there #1810472: Add Symfony's Serializer component to core despite Symfony potentially releasing BC-breaking updates after 2.3.. Thanks!