bug #17328 [Serializer] Allow to use proxies in object_to_populate (dunglas)

This PR was merged into the 2.7 branch.

Discussion
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[Serializer] Allow to use proxies in object_to_populate

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix?      | yes
| New feature?  | no
| BC breaks?    | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Tests pass?   | yes
| Fixed tickets | #15627, api-platform/core#381
| License       | MIT
| Doc PR        | n/a

Allows to populate a proxy (or any class having the given type).

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b16b5b9 [Serializer] Allow to use proxies in object_to_populate

Author: dunglas

Normalizer/AbstractNormalizer.php

@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ protected function instantiateObject(array &$data, $class, array &$context, \Ref
         if (
             isset($context['object_to_populate']) &&
             is_object($context['object_to_populate']) &&
-            $class === get_class($context['object_to_populate'])
+            $context['object_to_populate'] instanceof $class
         ) {
             $object = $context['object_to_populate'];
             unset($context['object_to_populate']);

Tests/Fixtures/ProxyDummy.php

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<?php
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of the Symfony package.
+ *
+ * (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code.
+ */
+
+namespace Symfony\Component\Serializer\Tests\Fixtures;
+
+/**
+ * @author Kévin Dunglas <dunglas@gmail.com>
+ */
+class ProxyDummy extends ToBeProxyfiedDummy
+{
+}

Tests/Fixtures/ToBeProxyfiedDummy.php

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<?php
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of the Symfony package.
+ *
+ * (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code.
+ */
+
+namespace Symfony\Component\Serializer\Tests\Fixtures;
+
+/**
+ * @author Kévin Dunglas <dunglas@gmail.com>
+ */
+class ToBeProxyfiedDummy
+{
+    private $foo;
+
+    public function setFoo($foo)
+    {
+        $this->foo = $foo;
+    }
+
+    public function getFoo()
+    {
+        return $this->foo;
+    }
+}

Tests/Normalizer/AbstractNormalizerTest.php

@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
 use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Mapping\AttributeMetadata;
 use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Mapping\ClassMetadata;
 use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Mapping\Factory\ClassMetadataFactoryInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\ObjectNormalizer;
 use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Tests\Fixtures\AbstractNormalizerDummy;
+use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Tests\Fixtures\ProxyDummy;
 
 /**
  * Provides a dummy Normalizer which extends the AbstractNormalizer.
@@ -88,4 +90,16 @@ public function testGetAllowedAttributesAsObjects()
         $result = $this->normalizer->getAllowedAttributes('c', array('groups' => array('other')), false);
         $this->assertEquals(array($a3, $a4), $result);
     }
+
+    public function testObjectToPopulateWithProxy()
+    {
+        $proxyDummy = new ProxyDummy();
+
+        $context = array('object_to_populate' => $proxyDummy);
+
+        $normalizer = new ObjectNormalizer();
+        $normalizer->denormalize(array('foo' => 'bar'), 'Symfony\Component\Serializer\Tests\Fixtures\ToBeProxyfiedDummy', null, $context);
+
+        $this->assertSame('bar', $proxyDummy->getFoo());
+    }
 }