Upgrade Guide

Note that if you want to use the new metadata system, you need to set:

# api/config/packages/api_platform.yaml
api_platform:
    metadata_backward_compatibility_layer: false

This will be the default value in 3.0, in 2.7 it’s left to true so that nothing breaks by updating. By doing so you won’t get access to legacy services and this will probably break things on code using api-platform/core:2.6.

In 3.0, in conformance with the JSON Merge Patch RFC, the default value of the skip_null_values property is true which means that from now on null values are omitted during serialization.

api_platform:
  defaults:
    normalization_context:
      skip_null_values: true

1. Update the code to 2.7: composer require api-platform/core:^2.7
2. Take care of the deprecations and update your code to the new interfaces, documented on this page
3. Switch the metadata_backward_compatibility_layer flag to false
4. Use the api:upgrade-resource command

Read more about the metadata_backward_compatibility_layer flag here.

• New Resource metadata allowing to declare multiple Resources on a class: ApiPlatform\Metadata\ApiResource
• Clarification of some properties within the ApiResource declaration
• Removal of item and collection differences on operation declaration
• ApiPlatform\Core\DataProvider\...DataProviderInterface has a new interface ApiPlatform\State\ProviderInterface
• ApiPlatform\Core\DataPersister\...DataPersisterInterface has a new interface ApiPlatform\State\ProcessorInterface
• New ApiProperty metadata ApiPlatform\Metadata\ApiProperty
• Configuration flag metadata_backward_compatibility_layer that allows the use of legacy metadata layers
• ApiPlatform\Core\DataTransformer\DataTransformerInterface is deprecated and will be removed in 3.0
• Subresources are now additional resources marked with an #[ApiResource] attribute (see the new subresource documentation)

The detailed changes are present in the CHANGELOG.

The ApiResource annotation has a new namespace: ApiPlatform\Metadata\ApiResource instead of ApiPlatform\Core\Annotation\ApiResource.

For example, the Book resource in 2.6:

<?php
// api/src/Entity/Book.php
namespace App\Entity;

use ApiPlatform\Core\Annotation\ApiResource;

#[ApiResource(
    iri: 'https://schema.org/Book',
    itemOperations: [
        'get',
        'post_publication' => [
            'method' => 'POST',
            'path' => '/books/{id}/publication',
        ],
    ])
]
class Book
{
    // ...
}

Becomes in 2.7:

<?php
// api/src/Entity/Book.php
namespace App\Entity;

use ApiPlatform\Metadata\ApiResource;
use ApiPlatform\Metadata\Get;
use ApiPlatform\Metadata\Post;
use App\Controller\CreateBookPublication;

#[ApiResource(types: ['https://schema.org/Book'], operations: [
    new Get(),
    new Post(name: 'publication', uriTemplate: '/books/{id}/publication')
])]
class Book
{
    // ...
}

You can use the api:upgrade-resource command to upgrade your resources automatically, see instructions here.

We removed the notion of item and collection. Instead, use HTTP verbs matching the operation you want to declare. There is also a collection flag instructing whether the operation returns an array or an object. The default ApiResource attribute still declares a CRUD:

#[ApiResource]

is the same as:

#[ApiResource(operations: [
    new Get(),
    new Put(),
    new Patch(),
    new Delete(),
    new GetCollection(),
    new Post(),
])]

ApiPlatform\Metadata\ApiResource instead of ApiPlatform\Core\Annotation\ApiResource

ApiPlatform\Metadata\ApiProperty instead of ApiPlatform\Core\Annotation\ApiProperty

Note that builtinTypes are computed automatically from PHP types.

For example:

class Book
{
    public string|Isbn $isbn;
}

Will compute: builtinTypes: ['string', Isbn::class]

In 2.7 the metadata_backward_compatibility_layer flag is set to true. This means that all the legacy services will still work just as they used to work in 2.6 (for example PropertyMetadataFactoryInterface or ResourceMetadataFactoryInterface). When updating we advise to first resolve the deprecations then to set this flag to false to use the new metadata system.

When metadata_backward_compatibility_layer is set to false:

• there’s still a bridge with the legacy ApiPlatform\Core\Annotation\ApiResource and old metadata will still work
• the deprecated Symfony services will have their interface changed (for example ApiPlatform\Core\Api\IriConverterInterface will be ApiPlatform\Api\IriConverterInterface) and it may break your dependency injection.
• the new metadata system is available ApiPlatform\Metadata\ApiResource

If you want to use the new namespaces for the search filter (ApiPlatform\Doctrine\Orm\Filter\SearchFilter instead ofApiPlatform\Core\Bridge\Doctrine\Orm\Filter\SearchFilter or ApiPlatform\Doctrine\Odm\Filter\SearchFilter instead ofApiPlatform\Core\Bridge\Doctrine\Odm\Filter\SearchFilter) you need to set the metadata_backward_compatibility_layer to false as this filter relies on the implementation of the new ApiPlatform\Api\IriConverterInterface.

In 3.0 this flag will default to false and the legacy code will be removed.

The upgrade command will automatically upgrade the old ApiPlatform\Core\Annotation\ApiResource to ApiPlatform\Metadata\ApiResource. By default, this does a dry run and shows a diff:

php bin/console api:upgrade-resource

To write in-place use the force option:

php bin/console api:upgrade-resource -f

Providers and Processors are replacing DataProviders and DataPersisters. We reduced their interface to only one method and the class used by your operation can be specified directly within the metadata. Using Doctrine, a default resource would use these:

<?php

use ApiPlatform\Metadata\Get;
use ApiPlatform\Metadata\GetCollection;
use ApiPlatform\Metadata\Delete;
use ApiPlatform\Metadata\Post;
use ApiPlatform\Metadata\Put;

#[Put(processor: ApiPlatform\Doctrine\Common\State\PersistProcessor::class, provider: ApiPlatform\Doctrine\Orm\State\ItemProvider::class)]
#[Post(processor: ApiPlatform\Doctrine\Common\State\PersistProcessor::class)]
#[Delete(processor: ApiPlatform\Doctrine\Common\State\RemoveProcessor::class)]
#[Get(provider: ApiPlatform\Doctrine\Orm\State\ItemProvider::class)]
#[GetCollection(provider: ApiPlatform\Doctrine\Orm\State\CollectionProvider::class)]
class Book {}

See also the respective documentation:

• State Processor
• State Provider

Data transformers have been deprecated, instead you can still document the output or the input DTO. Then, just handle the input in a custom State Processor or return another output in a custom State Provider.

The dto documentation has been adapted accordingly.