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    copied!<p>I'm using an API that returns XML. I can retrieve one or multiple accounts with the API. I am using the <a href="http://jmsyst.com/libs/serializer" rel="nofollow">Jms Serializer</a> to deserialize this data into simple model classes that will hold the data. </p> <p>An account looks like</p> <pre><code>&lt;account href="https://your-subdomain.recurly.com/v2/accounts/1"&gt; ... &lt;account_code&gt;1&lt;/account_code&gt; &lt;state&gt;active&lt;/state&gt; &lt;username nil="nil"&gt;&lt;/username&gt; &lt;email&gt;verena@example.com&lt;/email&gt; &lt;first_name&gt;Verena&lt;/first_name&gt; &lt;last_name&gt;Example&lt;/last_name&gt; ... &lt;address&gt;...&lt;/address&gt; &lt;/account&gt; </code></pre> <p>I've managed to configure my <code>Account</code> object as follows, which works fine when deserializing:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php namespace Recurly\Model; use JMS\Serializer\Annotation as JMS; /** * @JMS\XmlRoot("account") */ class Account { /** @JMS\Type("string") */ protected $account_code; /** @JMS\Type("string") */ protected $state; /** @JMS\Type("string") */ protected $username; /** @JMS\Type("string") */ protected $email; /** @JMS\Type("string") */ protected $first_name; /** @JMS\Type("string") */ protected $last_name; /** @JMS\Type("string") */ protected $company_name; /** @JMS\Type("string") */ protected $vat_number; /** @JMS\Type("Model\Address") */ protected $address; /** @JMS\Type("string") */ protected $accept_language; /** @JMS\Type("string") */ protected $hosted_login_token; /** @JMS\Type("DateTime") */ protected $created_at; // getters and setters here } </code></pre> <p>Now, when I get multiple accounts in, it looks like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;accounts type="array"&gt; &lt;account href="https://your-subdomain.recurly.com/v2/accounts/1"&gt;...&lt;/account&gt; &lt;account href="https://your-subdomain.recurly.com/v2/accounts/2"&gt;...&lt;/account&gt; &lt;account href="https://your-subdomain.recurly.com/v2/accounts/3"&gt;...&lt;/account&gt; &lt;/accounts&gt; </code></pre> <p>I'd like to deserialize this to an array of accounts. However, at the moment, the only way I've found that does the trick is creating a second Model called <code>Accounts</code> that looks like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php namespace Recurly\Model; use JMS\Serializer\Annotation as JMS; class Accounts { /** * @var Account[] * * @JMS\Type("array&lt;Recurly\Model\Account&gt;") * @JMS\XmlList(entry="account") */ protected $accounts; // getters and setters here } </code></pre> <p>When deserializing, I have to pass the correct context:</p> <pre><code>$serializer-&gt;deserialize($rawXml, 'Recurly\Model\Account', 'xml'); // or Recurly\Model\Accounts if I get multiple. </code></pre> <p>I found somewhere (in a SO question or on the JMS Serializer Github) that you can also pass "types" as context, like <code>$serializer-&gt;deserialize($rawXml, 'array&lt;Recurly\Model\Account&gt;', 'xml')</code> but this just results in an empty array... Anyone know if it's possible to deserialze the array without an extra data model? </p>
 

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