From ce286296c47b9d53358a75df75f3f267b0286a75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine M <amakdessi@me.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:43:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [Serializer] (re)document PRESERVE_EMPTY_OBJECTS

---
 serializer.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/serializer.rst b/serializer.rst
index 6e20a651341..b7deb6f5bff 100644
--- a/serializer.rst
+++ b/serializer.rst
@@ -1571,6 +1571,13 @@ to ``true``::
     ]);
     // $jsonContent contains {"name":"Jane Doe"}
 
+Preserving Empty Objetcs
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+By default, the Serializer will transform an empty array to `[]`.
+You can change this behavior by setting the ``AbstractObjectNormalizer::PRESERVE_EMPTY_OBJECTS`` context option
+to ``true``, when the value is `\ArrayObject()` the serialization would be `{}`.
+
 Handling Uninitialized Properties
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~