symfony validation doesn't work - symfony

Question

I guess there is something I'm missing.
I have a User entity which is validated through a yml file but every time I send a post request to the route it seems it doesn't get my request. With this I mean that the route works fine but I keep getting the error messages that the password and username should not be blank (due to the constraints i set). So it seems it's not getting my request validated against the entity.
I made sure to have this settings triggered in my config:
validation: { enabled: true, enable_annotations: true }
Here is my routing.yml:
user_login_homepage:
path: /check
defaults: { _controller: UserLoginBundle:Login:checkCredentials }
methods: [POST]
Here is my validation.yml
User\UserBundle\Entity\User:
properties:
username:
- NotBlank: ~
password:
- NotBlank: ~
Here is my controller (LoginController.php)
public function checkCredentialsAction(Request $request)
{
$recursiveValidator = $this->get('validator');
$user = new User();
$errors = $recursiveValidator->validate($user);
if (count($errors) > 0) {
$errorsString = (string) $errors;
return new Response($errorsString);
}
return new Response('Yuppy');
}
I've just tried to follow the instructions but I'm not able to have it work :(
Am I missing something?

Answer 1

you are creating an empty User so It's correct the error, try this (I have imagine that username and password are passed into POST data right?):
$user = new User();
$postData = $request->request->all();
$user->setUsername($postData['username'];
$user->setPassword($postData['password'];
$errors = $recursiveValidator->validate($user);