Major improvements all over the place!

[damienalexandre]

I have some work to contribute on the plugin:

• Improve the XML and Json serializer (deal with collections, plural naming, Json and XML are now a lot more consistant)
• Add a camelize option
• Add a root_name option
• Add a plural_root_name option
• Use the query() method in update and delete action (you can now have consistent query on all methods)
• The validated payload array is now kept and send to updateObjectFromRequest(). This is allowing a lot of flexibility (like saving sfValidatedFile instance i.e.)
• Updated documentation!

BUT we still need to do some stuff before a 1.0 release imho:

• recode the post validators logic (to use the full params array on each post validator, same as sfForm)
• camelize on all the serializer? (only XML do that atm)
• don't use the templating system (performance)
• add phpunit test to test the plugin itself (the serializer)

The main issue will be merging my Xml Serializer changes with the ones done in 4ba92e2, unit test can help.

I know symfony standard is lime (and that's why the generated functional test are lime one's) but as plugin developper we can use PhpUnit (which is way more efficient and dev friendly).
What do you think about that?

I could work on some test but I'm asking; lime or phpunit?

Have fun merging those stuffs ;-) Cheer.

[xavierlacot]

Could you please propose separate atomical pull requests for all these improvements? Thank you 😉 😘

[bastnic]

and do not forget to rebase, you have conflicts. Thanks.