unwrap child class instance

[lsmith77]

Q	A
Bug report?	no
Feature request?	yes
BC Break report?	no
RFC?	yes

I am wondering if there is a more elegant way to handle:

class Foo
{
    /**
     * @Serializer\Exclude()
     */
    private $bar;

    public function __construct(Bar $bar)
    {
        $this->bar = $bar;
    }

    /**
     * @Serializer\VirtualProperty()
     * @Serializer\SerializedName("Hello")
     * @Serializer\XmlElement(cdata=false)
     */
    public function getHello()
    {
        return $this->bar->world;
    }

There is obviously with annotating Bar to use Hello as the serialization name of the world property.

class Foo
{
    /**
     * @Serializer\Inline()
     */
    private $bar;

    public function __construct(Bar $bar)
    {
        $this->bar = $bar;
    }

But what if I do not want to define the mapping of world to Hello within the context of Foo class only?

Would something like the following make sense?

class Foo
{
    /**
     * @Serializer\Inline(cdata=false, map = {"Hello": "world"})
     */
    private $bar;

    public function __construct(Bar $bar)
    {
        $this->bar = $bar;
    }

[lsmith77]

I found a slightly better work around for the current status quo

class Foo
{
    /**
     * @Serializer\Exclude()
     */
    private $bar;

    public function __construct(Bar $bar)
    {
        $this->bar = $bar;
    }

    /**
     * @Serializer\VirtualProperty()
     * @Serializer\XmlElement(cdata=false)
     * @Serializer\XmlKeyValuePairs()
     * @Serializer\Inline()
     */
    public function getBar()
    {
        return [
            'Hello' => $this->bar->world,
            ..
        ];
    }

}

[lsmith77]

I guess given this, I would say expanding @Inline is probably not sensible.