Alias for Inner Objects

[fenixpsicologia]

Hey, what a cool and useful package! I'd like to ask if Serde would be capable of handling a very specific deserialization case. I work on a legacy application with a somewhat eccentric database, let's put it that way. In PDO queries, I usually bring all results as flattened arrays, and hydrating these data is a bit tedious because it's almost all done manually. My use case would be:

<?php

$data = [
    [
        "USER_ID" => 1,
        "USER_NAME" => "John",
        "ADDRESS_LINE" => "...",
        "ADDRESS_POST_CODE" => "...",
    ]
];

class User
{
    #[Serde\Field(serializedName: 'USER_ID')]
    public int $id;

    #[Serde\Field(serializedName: 'USER_NAME')]
    public string $name;

    #[Field(alias: 'ADDRESS_*')]
    public Address $address;
}

class Address {
    #[Serde\Field(serializedName: 'ADDRESS_LINE')]
    public string $line;

    #[Serde\Field(serializedName: 'ADDRESS_POST_CODE')]
    public string $postcode;
}

Would the library be able to handle a case like this?

[Larry Garfield]

Have a look at the section on "flattening" in the README. You should be able to do almost exactly what you want just by changing #[Field(alias: ...)] to #[Field(flatten: true)].