Request Body Converter with Param Converter

[FlorinAsavoaie]

I would expect to have the following feature:

/**
 * @View()
 * @ParamConverter(null, converter="fos_rest.request_body", options={"object_to_populate" = "post"})
 */
public function putAction(Post post) {
    return $post;
}

When doing an HTTP PUT to /posts/{id} where {id} is a valid ID of a post, the body converter would automatically use the object_to_populate option of the Serializer component to update the post parameter in place, after retrieving the post from the ParamConverter.

I did not get the time to look into how difficult this would be to implement but any suggestions would be welcome.

[MedUnes]

having the same nightmare since days as well

[oussama-aitmi]

any solution for this ?

[Ovascos]

I came around the problem by creating my own decorator converter for RequestBodyParamConverter. This converter looks for an already converted attribute (e.g. the doctrine object you want to patch), sets the object_to_populate option in RequestBodyParamConverter's deserializationContext before letting RequestBodyParamConverter do the work.

I can provide a pull request to integrate it into FOSRestBundle if desired.