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12 changes: 8 additions & 4 deletions components/serializer.rst
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Expand Up @@ -169,10 +169,11 @@ needs three parameters:
Support for the ``allow_extra_attributes`` key in the context was introduced
in Symfony 3.3.

By default, additional attributes that are not mapped to the denormalized
object will be ignored by the Serializer component. Set the ``allow_extra_attributes``
key of the deserialization context to ``false`` to let the serializer throw
an exception when additional attributes are passed::
By default, additional attributes that are not mapped to the denormalized object
will be ignored by the Serializer component. If you prefer to throw an exception
when this happens, set the ``allow_extra_attributes`` context option to
``false`` and provide an object that implements ``ClassMetadataFactoryInterface`
when constructing the normalizer::

$data = <<<EOF
<person>
Expand All @@ -184,6 +185,9 @@ an exception when additional attributes are passed::

// this will throw a Symfony\Component\Serializer\Exception\ExtraAttributesException
// because "city" is not an attribute of the Person class
$classMetadataFactory = new ClassMetadataFactory(new AnnotationLoader(new AnnotationReader()));
$normalizer = new ObjectNormalizer($classMetadataFactory);
$serializer = new Serializer(array($normalizer));
$person = $serializer->deserialize($data, 'Acme\Person', 'xml', array(
'allow_extra_attributes' => false,
));
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