Cannot pass shorthand entity class name to deserialize method

[Actine]

Hello.
This might have been already reported... Anyway, the issue is that the notation like this:

$object = $serializer->deserialize($content, 'MyBundle:MyEntity', 'json');

doesn't seem to be supported (fails at parsing class name), so one has to pass full class name like this:

$object = $serializer->deserialize($content, 'MyOrg\MyBundle\Entity\MyEntity', 'json');

Not a show stopper, but not very nice in terms of Symfony integration.

[stof]

MyBundle:MyEntity is specific to a doctrine entity manager (which has a configuration for namespace aliases). And if you have a project using both the ORM and the ODM, this will be ambiguous in this context as there is no reason to use the ORM rather than the ODM (or the opposite). The : shorthand syntaxes in Symfony are always specific to a given context. There is no logical context for the serializer IMO.

[stof]

btw, if you use PHP 5.5+, you can make it simpler:

$object = $serializer->deserialize($content, MyEntity::class, 'json');

[Actine]

Fair enough