Is this bundle still maintained?

[rserry]

As the title says. I see open (approved) PRs, but the last merge is from more than a year ago (November 4, 2024).

I use this bundle in my symfony project, but cant update to symfony 7.4 (and 8), because this bundle is not up-to-date.

I can see people creating PRs to fix these things (thank you!), but will they be merged?

[flohw]

Hi!
We use fosrest in a large and long term project and we just upgrade to SF7.4/PHP8.4 so it's not impossible.
We removed the use of fos rest routing as most of their features are available with the standard symfony routing if this is the problem for you. We anticipated that issue early and migrated 300+ routes.

In fact the only things we use from the bundle is auto serialization of the responses.

But the question is legitimate to me as it seems that there is not a lot of activity here... It might become harder in the future to maintain our project and upgrade. It would be appreciated to know the status early to have time to migrate.

[mbabker]

So my feedback as someone who's made some contributions to this bundle and done some work in Symfony apps with and without it...

If you're using just the core Symfony components for your API, and you're not needing some of the more advanced features (like the format detection or using the #[View] attribute and returning something other than a response from your controllers), you really don't need this bundle. The features added to Symfony during the 6.x cycle significantly improved "raw" API development with just the framework components and made a bundle like this one less of a necessity.

With that said, there are still a couple of key features that this bundle provides which you can't get with just the framework:

• Working with forms in an API context (the body listener)
• Working with the JMS Serializer (everything in the framework (rightfully) requires the Symfony Serializer, whereas there is a bridge interface in this bundle that can support serialization with either package)

The one big piece that's not supported with Symfony 7 or 8 and this bundle is the request body param converter this bundle provides that built on the older API provided by the now deprecated SensioFrameworkExtraBundle. #2398 made an attempt at a new implementation for the newer argument resolver API, but I just don't have the time to do anything meaningful with that right now.