Deserialize multidimensional JSON API Response with JSMSerializerBundle - json

Question

I work with Symfony2/JSMSerializerBundle.
Serializing flat json objects to PHP objects works great. But the API I use, gives a multidimensional Json response:
{
"Webmessage": {
"#version": "1.0",
"Header": {
"Country": "NL",
"Language": "NL"
},
"Content": {
"Filters": {
"Sizes": {
"Size": [
{
"#id": "241",
"#text": "3,5"
},
{
"#id": "55",
"#text": "36"
}
]
},
"Colours": {
"Colour": [
{
"#id": "159",
"#text": "wit"
},
{
"#id": "54",
"#text": "zwart"
}
]
}
}
}
}
}
As deserialized PHP I want something like this:
Array
(
[sizes] => Array
(
[0] => AppBundle\Entity\Filter Object
(
[id:AppBundle\Entity\Filter:private] => 1
[text:AppBundle\Entity\Filter:private] => Heren
)
[1] => AppBundle\Entity\Filter Object
(
[id:AppBundle\Entity\Filter:private] => 2
[text:AppBundle\Entity\Filter:private] => Dames
)
)
[colour] => Array
(
[0] => AppBundle\Entity\Filter Object
(
[id:AppBundle\Entity\Filter:private] =>56
[text:AppBundle\Entity\Filter:private] => Black
)
[1] => AppBundle\Entity\Filter Object
(
[id:AppBundle\Entity\Filter:private] => 212
[text:AppBundle\Entity\Filter:private] => Yellow
)
)
)
Who has tips how i can do this?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Maybe you can decode it first and then use the Normalizer to create the entities. Something like this:
$array= json_decode($json, true);
$valueToDenormalize = $array['value'];
$normalizer = new GetSetMethodNormalizer();
$entity = $normalizer->denormalize($valueToDenormalize, 'Your\Class');
Be aware, I have not tried this. I don't know if the normalizer will work this way, but I know it's used to normalize and denormalize between arrays and Symfony's entities.
For further investigation you could take a look at the Serializer docs:
http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/serializer.html
Or the Normalizer:
http://api.symfony.com/2.3/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Normalizer/GetSetMethodNormalizer.html
Here's something about json_encode:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php