REST POST no data?

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I am trying to create a REST service with Symfony2. I followed a few articles, and got the GET functions working; I am able to fetch a list of my objects, or a specific one. But saving my object to the database with a POST doesn't work. I am using the FOSRestBundle.

I created my entity Coldlead, my form ColdleadType, and created my newAction in the controller. But when I test the POST action with curl on bash, it seems that no information is being received by the FORM.

This is the command I execute:

curl -v -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"coldlead":{"registeredAt":"2013-04-12", "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Doe"}}' http://mvibesemail.roland.local/app_dev.php/coldleads | less

The reponse is:

{"form":{"children":{"firstName":[],"lastName":[],"email":[],"registeredAt":{"errors":["This value should not be blank."],"children":{"date":{"children":{"year":[],"month":[],"day":[]}},"time":{"children":{"hour":[],"minute":[]}}}},"ip":[],"fromSiteUrl":[],"isConfirmed":[],"isVerified":[],"isMember":[],"unsubscribeUrl":[]}}}

I think I am missing one final link. Maybe something with the serializer. Hopefully somebody could give me a hint.

The articles I read (and tried) are:

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 16 '13 at 10:05

My problem was with the datetime field. I changed my ColdLeadType to:

$builder
  // ...
  ->add('registeredAt', 'date', array(
      'widget' => 'single_text',
      'format' => 'yyyy-MM-dd'
    )
  )

Now I could get it to work with the commandline curl.

REST POST no data?

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