Failing to deserealize JSON string

[smilesrg]

I't trying to deserialize JSON string {"name":"Fabien"} with

        $result = $serializer->deserialize(
            '{"name":"Fabien"}',
            'ApheleiaExerciseBundle:TodoList',
            'json'
        );

but getting an error:

[2015-02-21 10:35:11] request.CRITICAL: Uncaught PHP Exception JMS\Parser\SyntaxErrorException: "Expected end of input, but got ":" of type T_NONE at position 22 (0-based)." at D:\Development\Projects\SymfonyExercise\vendor\jms\parser-lib\src\JMS\Parser\AbstractParser.php line 118 {"exception":"[object] (JMS\\Parser\\SyntaxErrorException(code: 0): Expected end of input, but got \":\" of type T_NONE at position 22 (0-based). at D:\\Development\\Projects\\SymfonyExercise\\vendor\\jms\\parser-lib\\src\\JMS\\Parser\\AbstractParser.php:118)"} []

[smilesrg]

The problem was not in JSON but in class name shortcut. Full namespace without forward slash should be used: Apheleia\ExerciseBundle\Entity\TodoList instead of ApheleiaExerciseBundle:TodoList