Feature: Symfony Normalizer/Serializer for Request and Response

[Hanmac]

I don't know how easy it would be, but when I connected to REST-API recently,
I used symfony/serializer to turn RequestObject → Array → HttpClient → Array → ResponseObject

Might be worth to write a Plugin for this?

[JonPurvis]

Hey @Hanmac 👋

I think it should be pretty straight forward, your idea could be worth some further exploration. That said, we probably won't bring this into the core Saloon library or make it an official plugin right now, but of course you're free to build it and release it as a third party plugin for Saloon that you maintain!

You could have a trait that hooks into Saloon's built-in DTO mapping for the response. Something like this:

<?php
namespace App\Http\Saloon\Traits;

use Saloon\Http\Response;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\SerializerInterface;

trait InteractsWithSymfonySerializer
{
    /**
     * Define the class you want to deserialize the response into.
     */
    abstract protected function getResponseClass(): string;

    /**
     * Provide your configured Symfony Serializer.
     */
    abstract protected function getSerializer(): SerializerInterface;

    /**
     * Automatically convert the response back into an Object.
     */
    public function createDtoFromResponse(Response $response): mixed
    {
        return $this->getSerializer()->deserialize(
            $response->body(),
            $this->getResponseClass(),
            'json'
        );
    }
}

For the request side of things, you could just tap into Saloon's middleware or the boot method to serialize your RequestObject right into the JSON body before it fires.

If you do create this as your own package, we'd be happy to consider linking it in the plugins section on the docs!

🤠