Symfony 4 serialize entity wihout relations

Question

I\'ve have to log changes of each entities. I\'ve Listener which listen for doctrine\'s events on preRemove, postUpdate and postDelete. My enity AccessModule has relations:<

Answer 1

ignored_attributes provides a quick, and easy way to accomplish what you're looking for.

$serializer->serialize($object, 'json', ['ignored_attributes' => ['ignored_property']]); 

Heres how its used with the serializer:

use Acme\Person;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Encoder\JsonEncoder;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\ObjectNormalizer;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Serializer;

$person = new Person();
$person->setName('foo');
$person->setAge(99);

$normalizer = new ObjectNormalizer();
$encoder = new JsonEncoder();

$serializer = new Serializer([$normalizer], [$encoder]);
$serializer->serialize($person, 'json', ['ignored_attributes' => ['age']]); 

Documentation: https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/serializer.html#ignoring-attributes