RestifyBundle

A reusable Symfony bundle providing a complete REST CRUD stack: abstract service, controller, repository, automatic entity hydration, and pick-based response enrichment.

Compatible with Symfony 6.4, 7.x, and 8.x — requires PHP 8.2+.

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Installation

composer require antoi/restify-bundle

If you are not using Symfony Flex, register the bundle manually:

// config/bundles.php
return [
    Antoi\RestifyBundle\RestifyBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

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Full wiring example (User resource)

1. Repository

use Antoi\RestifyBundle\Repository\AbstractRestRepository;

class UserRepository extends AbstractRestRepository
{
    public function __construct(ManagerRegistry $registry)
    {
        parent::__construct($registry, User::class);
    }

    // Only these fields may be used as query-param filters
    protected function getFilterableFields(): array
    {
        return ['name', 'email', 'status', 'createdAt'];
    }

    // Eager-load these relations on every list query
    protected function getDefaultJoins(): array
    {
        return ['role'];
    }
}

2. Service

use Antoi\RestifyBundle\Service\AbstractRestService;

class UserService extends AbstractRestService
{
    protected function getEntityClass(): string { return User::class; }

    protected function getWritableFields(): array
    {
        return ['name', 'email', 'role', 'status'];
    }
}

Wire in config/services.yaml (needed because AbstractRestService takes a typed AbstractRestRepository):

App\Service\UserService:
  arguments:
    $repository: '@App\Repository\UserRepository'

3. Controller

use Antoi\RestifyBundle\Controller\AbstractRestController;

#[Route('/api/users')]
class UserController extends AbstractRestController
{
    public function __construct(
        SerializerInterface $serializer,
        ValidatorInterface  $validator,
        PickResolver        $pickResolver,
        UserService         $service,
    ) {
        parent::__construct($serializer, $validator, $pickResolver, $service);
    }

    protected function getReadGroups(): array  { return ['user:read']; }
    protected function getListGroups(): array  { return ['user:list']; }
}

That's it. Six endpoints are registered automatically.

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Endpoints

Method	Path	Action	Description
GET	/	list()	Paginated, filterable list
GET	/{id}	show()	Single resource
POST	/	create()	Create + validate + persist
PUT	/{id}	update()	Full replace + validate + persist
PATCH	/{id}	patch()	Partial update + validate + save
DELETE	/{id}	delete()	Remove

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Query parameters

Pagination & sorting

GET /api/users?page=2&limit=10&sort=name,-createdAt

• sort=name → ORDER BY name ASC
• sort=-createdAt → ORDER BY createdAt DESC
• Multiple fields: sort=name,-createdAt

Filtering

Any query param not in [page, limit, sort, pick] is forwarded to the repository as a filter.

GET /api/users?status=active&createdAt_gte=2024-01-01&name_like=john

Supported operators (append as suffix):

Suffix	SQL equivalent
(none)	= :value
_gte	>= :value
_gt	> :value
_lte	<= :value
_lt	< :value
_neq	!= :value
_like	LIKE %value%
_in	IN (a, b, c)
=null	IS NULL

Pick — extra properties outside serialization groups

GET /api/users/42?pick=ip,lastLogin.ip,roles.name

Enriches the serialized response with additional properties resolved from the entity:

• ip → $user->getIp()
• lastLogin.ip → $user->getLastLogin()->getIp() (deep traversal)
• roles.name → [$role->getName(), ...] for each role in the collection

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Response shapes

Single resource

{
  "success": true,
  "data": { "id": 1, "name": "John" }
}

Paginated list

{
  "success": true,
  "data": [ ... ],
  "meta": { "total": 42, "page": 1, "limit": 20, "pages": 3 }
}

Validation error (422)

{
  "success": false,
  "message": "Validation failed.",
  "errors": {
    "email": ["This value is not a valid email address."]
  }
}

Not found (404)

{ "success": false, "message": "User with ID \"99\" was not found." }

Wire InvalidPayloadException (400) and ResourceNotFoundException (404) to your API error listener to produce these shapes automatically.

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Components reference

Class	Namespace	Description
AbstractRestRepository	…\Repository	Paginator, dynamic filters, operator suffixes
AbstractRestService	…\Service	Decode → filter fields → hydrate → persist
AbstractRestController	…\Controller	Full CRUD actions, serialization, pick merging
EntityHydrator	…\Service	Scalar + datetime + ManyToOne + ManyToMany
PickResolver	…\Service	Dot-notation deep property resolver
ApiResponse	…\DTO	{ success, data, message } envelope
PaginatedResponse	…\DTO	{ success, data, meta } envelope
InvalidPayloadException	…\Exception	400 — bad JSON or wrong field type
ResourceNotFoundException	…\Exception	404 — entity not found