More convienient way to change json serialization options in response

[naxvog]

Currently, as far as I can see, there are only a couple of ways to change encoding options to a model that is JSON serialized and returned as a response:

• Either pass options into the constructor of \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse every time you need it;
• extend \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse to include a standard set of options to use.
• (bonus: namespace override json_encode/json_decode functions)
• (bonus: middleware to reserialize with the desired options)

All of them are quite inconvenient if a project requires specific serializer options (or even a custom one).

Please tell me if I missed something because I am currently opting for the horrible namespace override described above 😉.

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In case I did not miss a more convenient option here is my proposal:
Similar to Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Casts\Json introduce a cast class that can be overwritten statically if needed.
Global serializer requirements could then be set in a service provider like so:

ResponseSerializer::encodeUsing(fn ($value) => json_encode($value, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE));
// and depending if response and model serialization should be different ...
ModelSerializer::encodeUsing(fn ($value) => json_encode($value, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE));

ResponseSerializer etc. would be a copy of the aforementioned Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Casts\Json.
Those two should be separate as one handles casts for the database and the other casts for the response.