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15 changes: 9 additions & 6 deletions components/serializer.rst
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Expand Up @@ -511,9 +511,10 @@ There are several types of normalizers available:
directly and through getters, setters, hassers, adders and removers. It supports
calling the constructor during the denormalization process.

Objects are normalized to a map of property names (method name stripped of
the "get"/"set"/"has"/"remove" prefix and converted to lower case) to property
values.
Objects are normalized to a map of property names and values (names are
generated removing the ``get``, ``set``, ``has`` or ``remove`` prefix from
the method name and lowercasing the first letter; e.g. ``getFirstName()`` ->
``firstName``).

The ``ObjectNormalizer`` is the most powerful normalizer. It is configured by
default when using the Symfony Standard Edition with the serializer enabled.
Expand All @@ -523,8 +524,9 @@ There are several types of normalizers available:
(public methods starting with "get"). It will denormalize data by calling
the constructor and the "setters" (public methods starting with "set").

Objects are normalized to a map of property names (method name stripped of
the "get" prefix and converted to lower case) to property values.
Objects are normalized to a map of property names and values (names are
generated removing the ``get`` prefix from the method name and lowercasing
the first letter; e.g. ``getFirstName()`` -> ``firstName``).

:class:`Symfony\\Component\\Serializer\\Normalizer\\PropertyNormalizer`
This normalizer directly reads and writes public properties as well as
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}

To avoid infinite loops, :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Serializer\\Normalizer\\GetSetMethodNormalizer`
throws a :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Serializer\\Exception\\CircularReferenceException`
or :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Serializer\\Normalizer\\ObjectNormalizer`
throw a :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Serializer\\Exception\\CircularReferenceException`
when such a case is encountered::

$member = new Member();
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