Return a JSON array from a Controller in Symfony

Question

I am trying return a JSON response from a controller in Symfony 2. Form example, in Spring MVC I can get a JSON response with @ResponseBody annotattion. I want get a JSON re

Answer 1

I suggest the following solution:

/**
     * @Route(
     *      "/drop/getCategory/",
     *      name="getCategory"
     * )
     * @Method("GET")
     */
    public function getAllCategoryAction() {
        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
        $query = $em->createQuery(
            'SELECT c
            FROM AppBundle:Categoria c'
        );
        $categorias = $query->getArrayResult();


        return new Response(json_encode($categorias), 200);
}