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Serializer context
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The serializer can use a (de)serialization context to control how a resource is (de)serialized.
The context is passed to all normalizers. For example:

* :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Serializer\\Normalizer\\DateTimeNormalizer` uses ``datetime_format`` key as date time format;
* :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Serializer\\Normalizer\\AbstractObjectNormalizer` uses ``empty_iterable_as_object`` to preserve empty objects (keeps ``{}`` instead of ``[]`` in JSON);

.. versionadded:: 5.4

:class:`Symfony\\Component\\Serializer\\Serializer` uses ``empty_arrays_as_object`` to serialize empty array as object (uses ``{}`` instead of ``[]`` in JSON);

You can pass the context like following::

$serializer->serialize($something, 'json', [
DateTimeNormalizer::FORMAT_KEY => 'Y-m-d H:i:s',
]);

$serializer->deserialize($someJson, Something::class, 'json', [
DateTimeNormalizer::FORMAT_KEY => 'Y-m-d H:i:s',
]);

.. _serializer-using-serialization-groups-annotations:

Using Serialization Groups Annotations
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