Recursion groups, serializing properties in entities

[YoruNoHikage]

As pointed out in this thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12746455/jmsserializerbundle-serialization-groups-in-entities-with-relations there's no way I know to make a difference between groups in the main entity and its relations.

The changes brought by the answer are perfect to do so, but the author didn't submit his code here.

How should I do, is there a better way to do what I want or to implement this changes ? Should we open a pull request ? (I forked this repo and applied the changes in it as a temporary solution).

[wizardz]

Hi guys, any chances to get your attention to this issue? Are we missing some existing solution?

[lopsided]

This would be a really useful addition to the bundle. Check out the proposed usage here by @andreasferber :
andreasferber@60582e7

Unless there is a suitable workaround? How else can you serialize User->Friends(User) without pulling in all the same fields for all the friends as you have for the original user?

[lopsided]

The way I'm working around this at the moment is to create a new model class (not persisted) for Friend containing only the properties that I want to be serialized and then changing my getFriends() method to convert the returned User objects into an array of my new Friend objects. Feels a bit messy.

[adrienbrault]

Have you seen #170 ?

[lopsided]

@adrienbrault No I hadn't! Thanks for the ref I'll keep an eye on that one too.

[YoruNoHikage]

@adrienbrault Wow, didn't see that. It seems to do the same thing. I think this can be closed.