How to manage JMS Serializer serialization rules - php

Question

I am using xsd2php library to parse XSD which describes API request body. Then using the same library (which itself uses jsm-serializer) I try to serialize objects:
$payload = new TrackRequest;
$searchCriteria = new SearchCriteriaAType;
$searchCriteria->addToConsignmentNumber(11111);
$payload->setSearchCriteria($searchCriteria);
$levelOfDetail = new LevelOfDetailAType;
$levelOfDetail->setSummary(true);
$payload->setLevelOfDetail($levelOfDetail);
Using basic serializer settings:
$serializerBuilder = SerializerBuilder::create();
$serializerBuilder->addMetadataDir(__DIR__ . '/../../metadata/Tracking', 'TNTExpressConnect\Tracking\XSD');
$serializerBuilder->setPropertyNamingStrategy(new IdenticalPropertyNamingStrategy);
$serializerBuilder->configureHandlers(function (HandlerRegistryInterface $handler) use ($serializerBuilder) {
$serializerBuilder->addDefaultHandlers();
$handler->registerSubscribingHandler(new BaseTypesHandler()); // XMLSchema List handling
$handler->registerSubscribingHandler(new XmlSchemaDateHandler()); // XMLSchema date handling
});
Serialization results in:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<result>
<searchCriteria>
<account/>
<alternativeConsignmentNumber/>
<consignmentNumber>
<entry><![CDATA[11111]]></entry>
</consignmentNumber>
<customerReference/>
<pieceReference/>
</searchCriteria>
<levelOfDetail>
<summary>true</summary>
</levelOfDetail>
</result>
Regarding this results I have several questions:
Why the root element is <result> and not <TrackRequest>?
How to get rid of CDATA?
How to get rid of <entry> tags in favor of creating separate consigmentNumber tag for each entry?
How to replace <summary>true</summary> with self-closing tag <summary/>
I guess for every one of this cases I can create a dedicated handler, but maybe there is a built-in solution, which I overlooked in the documentation (maybe some config options that can be placed in yaml).
And if I have to create handlers maybe someone can point me the more sophisticated example, that explains how to do it right.
I'm not a big fan of annotations, so I would prefer to use separate config files.
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You should have a look ar the YAML Reference. A lot of things can be set up with the meta data files.
To change the "result" to "TrackRequest" add this line to the file:
Vendor\MyBundle\Model\ClassName:
xml_root_name: TrackRequest ## Changes the root element
To get rid of cdata in entry change the property:
properties:
entry:
xml_element:
cdata: false ## Add this to disable cdata tags
Just came accross the same problems as you did. I hope it helps.