Deserializing nested array of objects #49119

xorik · 2023-01-26T16:29:37Z

xorik
Jan 26, 2023

So there's a way to serialize array of objects: https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/serializer.html#handling-arrays
But is there way to do it for a nested field?

So this works:

// $data contains [{"name":"foo","age":99,"sportsman":false},{"name":"bar","age":33,"sportsman":true}]
$persons = $serializer->deserialize($data, 'Acme\Person[]', 'json');

But is it possible if I have array of people in a property, e.g.

class Group {
    public string $name;

    /** @var Person[]  */
    public array $people;
}

And I want to use it like that:

{"name": "My group", "people": [{"name":"foo","age":99,"sportsman":false},{"name":"bar","age":33,"sportsman":true}]}

Is there a way to do tell Symfony that I want array of Person objects inside the people property?

$group = $serializer->deserialize($data, 'Acme\Group', 'json');

Deserializing nested array of objects #49119

xorik Jan 26, 2023

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