# symfony/serializer-pack

A Symfony Pack for Symfony Serializer

Repository: https://github.com/symfony/serializer-pack
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/serializer-pack
Homepage: https://symfony.com
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: symfony, symfony-pack, serializer, serialization
Last push: 2026-03-03T10:17:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 54/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 70, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3199, "days_push": 183, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_readme
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1048, forks 6 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:22.384739+00:00)

## What it is
A Composer metapackage (Symfony Pack) that bundles the Symfony Serializer component together with its commonly used supporting dependencies. Installing it pulls in everything needed to serialize and deserialize PHP objects to and from formats like JSON and XML.

## Use cases
- convert php objects to  in a symfony app
- deserialize  request bodies into dto objects
- set up symfony serializer with all recommended dependencies
- normalize and denormalize objects for api responses
- encode and decode xml and csv data in php
- quickly install serialization support in a symfony project

## When to choose
- you use Symfony and want the serializer plus its typical dependencies in one composer require
- you need object-to-format serialization (JSON, XML, CSV) in a PHP project
- you want a maintained, officially recommended dependency set for Symfony Serializer

## When to avoid
- you need fine-grained control over which serializer dependencies are installed
- you are not using Composer or the PHP ecosystem
- you need a standalone serializer outside Symfony's component model

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: serialization, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, backend, developer-tools
- platform: php, cross-platform
- tags: symfony-pack, composer-metapackage, symfony-serializer, data-mapping, normalization

## Member repositories
- symfony/serializer-pack (main) score 54

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:22.384739+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:01:02.804773+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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  - site_page: https://symfony.com/doc (fetched 2026-08-29T13:02:45.071351+00:00, sha 44889134f4fb)
  - site_page: https://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/community/releases.html (fetched 2026-08-29T13:02:45.073061+00:00, sha 77e7bf4a74c3)
  - site_page: https://symfony.com/releases (fetched 2026-08-29T13:02:45.074664+00:00, sha a53ecdd1cdf8)
  - site_page: https://symfony.com/blog/category/releases (fetched 2026-08-29T13:02:45.076542+00:00, sha 22d469644e83)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.