Symfony request with json for postman - json

Question

I have my CRUD but I need to do a POST request with postman. I've been reading some posts but I don't really understand how it works.
My routing for that:
jugador_create:
path: /{_format}
defaults: { _controller: "FutbolBundle:Jugador:new", _format: html }
requirements: { _method: post, _format: html|xml|json }
My controller is this:
public function newAction(Request $request)
{
$entity = new Jugador();
$form = $this->createCreateForm($entity);
if ($request->getMethod() == 'POST'){
$form->handleRequest($request);
if ($form->isValid()) {
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$em->persist($entity);
$em->flush();
return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('jugador_show', array('id' => $entity->getId())));
}}
return $this->render('FutbolBundle:Jugador:new.html.twig', array(
'entity' => $entity,
'form' => $form->createView(),
));
}
How do I do it so in postman I can do a JSON post and it creates it? I think I need to do a switch with Json, xml and default case but I don't really understand how to do the Json part.
Thank you so much.
Also, in my index I already did the switch with Json and xml but it's pretty different to a GET than a POST.
public function indexAction(Request $request){
$request = $this->getRequest();
$serializer = new Serializer(array(new GetSetMethodNormalizer()),array(new XmlEncoder(), new JsonEncoder()));
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$entities = $em->getRepository('FutbolBundle:Jugador')->findAll();
switch ($request->getRequestFormat()){
case "json":
$response=new Response();
$response->setContent($serializer->serialize($entities,'json'));
return $response;
break;
case "xml":
$response=new Response();
$response->setContent($serializer->serialize($entities,'xml'));
return $response;
break;
default:
return $this->render('FutbolBundle:Jugador:index.html.twig', array(
'entities' => $entities,
));
}
}

Answer 1

My sugestion is as follow:
Implemet a format listener to avoid repeating your code in all controllers
public function onKernelRequest(GetResponseEvent $event)
{
$request = $event->getRequest();
if ('json' === $request->getContentType() && $request->getContent()) {
$data = json_decode($request->getContent(), true);
$request->request->replace($data);
}
}
After that your controller should not change because you already transformed the data from json to regular posted data. You can do the same with the xml format or what ever format you want but html.
Specify the headers in postman
At Headers options below the method/url just add the Content-type header as follow.
Content-type(key) application/json (value)
Content-type(key) application/xml (value)
That should work
Hope it helps.
PD: Si no entiendes todo lo que he escrito hazmelo saber.

Answer 2

Just in case anyone needs help, I actually did it pretty simple using sets and the entity of Symfony.
$data = json_decode($request->getContent(),true);
$entity->setNom($data["nom"]);
$entity->setEquip($data["equip"]);
... (more sets if you need them)
and this for inserting it into the data base.
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$em->persist($entity);
$em->flush();