Symfony 6 with serializer component - deserialize array of objects - symfony

Question

Install:
composer require symfony/property-info
composer require symfony/property-access
1 Create own serializer service like
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Serializer as SymfonySerializer;
class Serializer
{
private SymfonySerializer $serializer;
public function __construct()
{
$this->serializer = new SymfonySerializer(
[
new ArrayDenormalizer(),
new ObjectNormalizer(null, null, null, new ReflectionExtractor())
], ['json' => new JsonEncoder()]
);
}
public function deserialize(string $data, string $type, string $format, array $context = [])
{
return $this->serializer->deserialize($data, $type, $format, $context);
}
}
Create 3 models: Parent,Owner,User
In your model which you put here:
$parent = $this->serializer->deserialize($request->getContent(), Parent::class, 'json');
to get array of objects you need to have property like:
private array $users = [];
default value is neccessary!
and 3 methods like in this documentation:
https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/property_access.html#writing-to-array-properties
addUser, hasUsers and removeUser
Be carefoul....HAS method name must be plural
This own service will work if deserialized JSON has scalar values, objects and also array of objects:
"owner": {
"firstname": "xxx",
"lastname": "xxxx"
}
"users":[
{
"firstname": "xxx",
"lastname":"yyy"
},
{
"firstname": "zzzz",
"lastname":"wwww"
}
]
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