JMSSerializer deserialize entity by id

[ei-developpers-team]

Hello,

any help plz;
i need to deserialize entity by id . () ManyToone.
Invalid data 1 (integer), expected

any idea?

[zoomtronic]

same issue, if you have any update on this..
the only thing that worked for me is to add merge before persist but its deprecated..

$serializer = SerializerBuilder::create()->build();
$block = $serializer->deserialize($encodedData, 'App\Entity\Block', 'json');
$block = $manager->merge($block);
// persist
$manager->persist($block);
$manager->flush();

[goetas]

this has been documented in schmittjoh/serializer#1308