How to globally define configuration of Serializer used in API Platform - symfony

Question

In order to user the #MaxDepth annotation in entities, the enable_max_depth property has to be set explicitly in serializer context (e.g. in config of the #ApiPlatform annotation), so on entity level, so for each entity
Is there a way to define this property enable_max_depth=true for all entities of the project ? Something we could find in api-platform.yaml and which will look like that :
api-platform:
serializer:
enable_max_depth: true

Answer 1

There is no such global option for now (it can be worth adding it, PR welcome).
However, you can register a SerializerContextBuilder to add this context entry automatically for all resources:
<?php
namespace App\Serializer;
use ApiPlatform\Core\Serializer\SerializerContextBuilderInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
final class MaxDepthContextBuilder implements SerializerContextBuilderInterface
{
private $decorated;
public function __construct(SerializerContextBuilderInterface $decorated)
{
$this->decorated = $decorated;
}
public function createFromRequest(Request $request, bool $normalization, ?array $extractedAttributes = null): array
{
$context = $this->decorated->createFromRequest($request, $normalization, $extractedAttributes);
$context['enable_max_depth'] = true;
return $context;
}
}
Then register this new class as a service decorator:
# api/config/services.yaml
services:
# ...
'App\Serializer\MaxDepthContextBuilder':
decorates: 'api_platform.serializer.context_builder'
autoconfigure: false
autowire: true