Symfony - Deserialize json to an array of entities

Question

I have a json object that I received by making a get API call. I make this call to receive a list of objects. It\'s a list of post... So I have an array of Post Objects.

Answer 1

I would make something like this

class PostsModel
{
    /**
     * @var int
     */
    private $total;

    /**
     * @var PostModel[]
     */
    private $data;
}

class PostModel
{
    /**
     * @var int
     */
    private $id;

    /**
     * @var UserModel
     */
    private $user;

    /**
     * @var string
     */
    private $description;

    /**
     * @var  int
     */
    private $nb_comments;

    /**
     * @var int
     */
    private $nb_likes;

    /**
     * @var \DateTime
     */
    private $date_creation;
}

class UserModel
{
    /**
     * @var int
     */
    private $id;

    /**
     * @var string
     */
    private $username;
}

And in controller

            $posts = $this->serializer->deserialize($data, PostsModel::class, 'json');

And this will return $postsModel with $data property which will have your array of entities