Symfony - Serializer, Normalizer, Deserializer how to convert Array to Entity Object?

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symfony

Hello everyone,

does anyone know how to convert an Array to an Entity Object?

the following json is sent:

{
  "data": {
    "object_nr": 565656,
    "title": "My Title",
    "categorie_id": 3
  }
}

How can one correctly and elegantly convert this to an Entity Object?
It's especially not clear how to deal with Relations ...

I tried to do this, and everything works fine, but I suspect that this is "shit-code":

/**
     * @ParamConverter("immo", converter="fos_rest.request_body")
     */
    public function postImmoAction(Immo $immo, Request $request)
    {
        $data = $request->request->all();
        $immo->setCreatedAt(new DateTime());
        $immo->setUpdatedAt(new DateTime());
        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

        $categorie = $em->getRepository(Immo\Categorie::class)->find($request->request->get($data['categorie_id']);

        это ManyToOne Realtion:
        $immo->setCategorie($categorie);

        $immo->setUser($this->getUser());


        $em->persist($immo);
        $em->flush();
    }

# what is missing return is understandable, I cut the code so that I didn’t have to read a lot.

Please tell me how you would solve this problem...

Thank you so much!