Doctrine entity to different json views

Question

When I get a list of entities from Doctrine, how can I return different json 'views' ? Ie. when I load Student classes I want views with only id, displayName and another with more details id, firstName, lastName, email, groups. Groups is another collection with id, name. I'm using lumen and doctrine.

Possible duplicate of [Serializing PHP object to JSON](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6836592/serializing-php-object-to-json) — goto, Jun 29 '16 at 12:17
@goto I don't believe it is a duplicate. Your link provides information on serializing all fields. I just want to serialize some fields. And even more: I must be able to serialize two fields for request A, and 5 fields for request B. — BakGat, Jun 29 '16 at 13:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 29 '16 at 14:53

You can implement JsonSerializable interface on your entityes and create custom versions on it. ie:

class MyEntity implements JsonSerializable {

  /**
   * Doctrine annotation 
   */
  private $myEntityMember;

  ...

  public function jsonSerialize() {
     //serialize your entity here and use custom params to modify the serialized object output
  }

}

This way you can call $myEntityObject->jsonSerialize() whenever you need.

Doctrine entity to different json views

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