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I have an issue when I'm using the serializer with FOSRestBundle in Symfony 4.1

I have the following error message :

Could not normalize object of type App\Entity\Youp, no supporting normalizer found. Symfony\Component\Serializer\Exception\NotNormalizableValueException

I don't understand why I have this issue, Symfony's Serializer should have an serializer object or I miss something ?

See bellow my controller and my entity :

<?php

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="App\Repository\YoupRepository")
 */
class Youp
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Id()
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue()
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     */
    private $id;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=255)
     */
    private $name;

    public function getId(): ?int
    {
        return $this->id;
    }

    public function getName(): ?string
    {
        return $this->name;
    }

    public function setName(string $name): self
    {
        $this->name = $name;

        return $this;
    }
}

<?php 

namespace App\Controller;

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

use FOS\RestBundle\Controller\FOSRestController;
use FOS\RestBundle\View\View;
use FOS\RestBundle\Controller\Annotations as Rest;

use App\Entity\Youp;

class BidonController extends FOSRestController {

  /**
   * @Rest\View()
   * @Rest\Get("/youps")
   */
  public function getPharmacies() {
    $youps = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository(Youp::class)->findAll();
    return $youps; 
  }
}

1 Answer 1

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Your object's properties are private so the serializer doesn't know how to normalize or get any data from your object. You can either set the properties to public or enable the ObjectNormalizer (which uses the PropertyAccess Component to access the private/protected properties) and/or GetSetMethodNormalizer (which reads the content of the class by calling the "getters") using the following service-definition in your configuration:

services:
  # [..]
  Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\ObjectNormalizer:
    class: Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\ObjectNormalizer
    public: false
    tags:
      - { name: 'serializer.normalizer' }

  Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\GetSetMethodNormalizer:
    class: Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\GetSetMethodNormalizer
    public: false
    tags:
      - { name: 'serializer.normalizer' }

Clear your cache afterwards. More information about the normalizers already included in the serializer component can be found in the documentation

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2 Comments

Yes it was that ! Thank a lot. I have misunderstood the documentation
Thanks for your answer. It works for me, but we need to install symfony/property-access before using it. I came across a related exception.

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