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Last Update 01 Feb 2016.

Property Mapper

Extbase provides a Property Mapper to convert different values, like integers or arrays, to other types, like strings or object. In this example, we provide a string that will be converted to an integer:

$output = $this->objectManager->get(\TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Property\PropertyMapper::class)
    ->convert('10', 'integer');

Conversion is done by using the TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Property\PropertyMapper::convert() method.

How to use property mapper

The above example was a really simple one. Most of the time you will convert from an array to an where some points must be considered. This example will show a simple conversation:

$input = [
    'username' => 'This is the user name',
];

$output = $this->objectManager->get(\TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Property\PropertyMapper::class)
    ->convert(
        $input,
        'TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\FrontendUser'
    );

The result will be a new instance of TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\FrontendUser with defined property username.

Note

The property mapper won't check validation rules. The result will be whatever the input is.

Allow mapping of sub-properties

It's also possible to map to subtypes. In the above example, the FrontendUser has a sub-property of type TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\FrontendUserGroup. If you wanna map an incoming id, you have to configure the mapper as per default he won't map sub properties for security reasons:

$input = [
    'username' => 'This is the user name',
    'usergroup' => [
        1,
    ],
];

// Get property mapping configuration
$mappingConfiguration = $this->objectManager
    ->get('TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Property\PropertyMappingConfigurationBuilder')
    ->build();
// Adjust configuration to allow mapping of sub property 'usergroup'
$mappingConfiguration->forProperty('usergroup')
    ->allowAllProperties();

$output = $this->objectManager->get(\TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Property\PropertyMapper::class)
    ->convert(
        $input,
        'TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Domain\Model\FrontendUser',
        $mappingConfiguration
    );