From d789f9424e0c93f7d98ae74817ccacb23555b754 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Clemmons <eric@smarterspam.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:19:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Serializer#normalize gives precedence to objects that support
 normalization

---
 src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Serializer.php | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Serializer.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Serializer.php
index 7ff797a66a46..b2547cc6738b 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Serializer.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/Serializer.php
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ public function normalize($data, $format = null)
         if (null === $data || is_scalar($data)) {
             return $data;
         }
+        if (is_object($data) && $this->supportsNormalization($data, $format)) {
+            return $this->normalizeObject($data, $format);
+        }
         if ($data instanceof \Traversable) {
             $normalized = array();
             foreach ($data as $key => $val) {