Can doctrine2 hydrate a new entity from an array?

Question

I think the title asks it all. Very simple, I have an entity:

class User {     private $id;     private $name;     private $username; } 

with all the appropriate setters and getter. I have an array:

array( 'name' => 'joe', 'username' => 'shmoe' ); 

and I want to be able to do something like this:

Some\Unknown\Doctrine\Object::hydrateFromArray($array); 

Obviously creating a function to hydrate it an object would be easy enough, but surely doctrine must have something build in to accomplish this?

Answer 1

Figured it out. Given a repository:

//for odm $repo->getDocumentManager()->getHydratorFactory()->hydrate($entity, $array); 

I don't know if the same can be done for ORM, but I'm currently using ODM.

Answer 2

You could use the Serializer Component:

$user = $serializer->deserialize($data, 'Namespace\User', 'json'); 

http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/serializer.html#deserializing-an-object