When you ever develop an API in the Symfony framework1, you probably heard of the serializationGroup option. It allows you to define different groups of attributes to serialize and deserialize. However, defining these groups without proper consideration may make the whole development hard, e.g., if you need to deal with different scopes of the object’s attributes in many other endpoints.
I want to show you our approach to serialization groups in one of our projects. Together with my team, we use them to control the serialization of related entities on various endpoints in our API.