How to pass data from Request to Entity without using FormType?

Question

symfony

Hello.
Please tell me if there is a possibility not to use Symfony forms, but to be able to be just as elegant:

$form = $this->createForm(new BriefType(), new Brief());

            $form->handleRequest($request);

            if($form->isValid()){ 

                $brief = $form->getData();
                // ....
            }

pass values ​​from Request to Entity ? (validated by a validator, of course, based on Assert values).
Or am I thinking stupid?

Answer 1

to be as elegant, you need to do the same. There are no other forms in symfony2 (officially, maybe there are some implementations on the github).
But, for the API, you can use JMS_Serializer.
In any case, you have the $request object - write your own implementations of creating an entity from the data, and your bicycles will be "just as elegant" for you