symfony/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/README.md

Serializer Component

With the Serializer component its possible to handle serializing data structures, including object graphs, into array structures or other formats like XML and JSON. It can also handle deserializing XML and JSON back to object graphs.

Resources

You can run the unit tests with the following command:

$ cd path/to/Symfony/Component/Serializer/
$ composer.phar install
$ phpunit