UPGRADING.md

Upgrading

This document will be updated to list important BC breaks and behavioral changes.

upgrading to 2.0.0 (unreleased)

• RedirectView and RouteRedirect view were removed. Use View::createRedirect and View::createRouteRedirect instead. Note: the default status code for a route redirect has changed from HTTP_CREATED (201) to HTTP_FOUND (302).

upgrading from 1.0.0-RC1

• The Bundle no longer depends on "friendsofsymfony/rest" and as a result several class names have changed. Specifically FOS\Rest\Util\Codes is now FOS\RestBundle\Util\Codes and also the sub-namespace for the decoders has changed from FOS\Rest\Decoder to FOS\RestBundle\Decoder. In practice it should be sufficient to simply search replace FOS\Rest\ with ``FOS\RestBundle`.
• The XmlDecoder now has a dependency on "symfony/serializer"

upgrading from 0.13.1

• ExceptionController::showAction() doesn't have type hint on the $exception object anymore due to a BC change in symfony/symfony 2.3.5, see FriendsOfSymfony#565

• POST routes now pluralize the resource name, ie. /users vs. /user

• The response for non-valid Forms has changed. See https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle/blob/master/Resources/doc/2-the-view-layer.md#forms-and-views

• The default error message structure has changed.

  Old structure

   {
     "status": "error",
     "status_code": 400,
     "status_text": "Bad Request",
     "current_content": "",
     "message": "New comment is not valid."
   }
  

  New structure

   {
     "code": 400,
     "message": "New comment is not valid.";
   }
  

  Alternatively you can inject your own implementation. See https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle/blob/master/Resources/doc/2-the-view-layer.md#forms-and-views

• The format_listener configuration has changed to allow different settings per host/path. Finally the signature of FormatNegotiatorInterface::getBestFormat() changed.

upgrading from 0.12.0

• Route parameters cannot be set via setData anymore, please use a dedicated function setRouteParameters from now on

upgrading from 0.11.0

• now requires JMSSerializerBundle 0.12
• refactored the View class to drop the serializer specific methods in favor of setSerializationContext()
• default version/groups will now only be applied if no SerializationContext was explicitly set on the View

upgrading from 0.10.0

• now requires JMSSerializerBundle 1.0 (later renamed to 0.11) which is not compatible with Symfony2.0

upgrading from 0.9.0

• the view response listener is now disabled by default. See enable view listener for how to enable it.
• JMSSerializerBundle is now an optional dependency and therefore needs to be added explicitly

upgrading from 0.7.0

• renamed "query" fetcher to "param" fetcher, this affects the configuration as well as the name of interfaces and request attributes
• ViewHandler now only calls "createView()" in a single form instance set as "form" in the data array
• removed "serializer_version" config option on favor of "serializer: ['version': ..]"

upgrading from 0.6.0

• renamed [get|set]Objects*() to [get|set]Serializer*()
• renamed the "objects_version: XXX" configuration option to "serializer: [version: XXX]"
• moved serializer configuration code from ViewHandler::createResponse() to ViewHandler::getSerializer()
• made ViewHandler::getSerializer() protected again

19 April 2012

• Change route fallback action to PATCH instead of POST

Automatically generated routes will now fall back to the PATCH instead of the POST method.

More information in the docs, at this issue and this PR.

upgrading from 0.5.0_old_serializer

• The ViewInterface is gone so you might have to change your controller config if you refer to the fos_rest.view service.

• The View class is now split into a View (simple data container) and a ViewHandler (contains the actual rendering logic).

  The following code would need to be changed:

   public function indexAction($name = null)
   {
       $view = $this->container->get('fos_rest.view');
  
       if (!$name) {
           $view->setResourceRoute('_welcome');
       } else {
           $view->setParameters(array('name' => $name));
           $view->setTemplate(new TemplateReference('LiipHelloBundle', 'Hello', 'index'));
       }
  
       return $view->handle();
   }
  

  To the following code:

   public function indexAction($name = null)
   {
       if (!$name) {
           $view = \FOS\RestBundle\View\RouteRedirectView::create('_welcome');
       } else {
           $view = \FOS\RestBundle\View\View::create(array('name' => $name))
               ->setTemplate(new TemplateReference('LiipHelloBundle', 'Hello', 'index'));
           ;
       }
  
       return $this->container->get('fos_rest.view_handler')->handle($view);
   }
  

• The custom Serializer class was removed instead JMSSerializerBundle is now used, which replaces the concept of normalizers/encoders with the concept of visitors and handler