Api-platform string given, must be type of Entity-CodePudding

i have i guess simple problem, but i cant get it working properly:

Im getting this error: App\Entity\Commands::setServerID(): Argument #1 ($serverID) must be of type ?App\Entity\Servers, string given And when i try to do add new element via api-platform its working correctly:

And here is result:

But when i try to do it via postman or in my controller in symfony im getting error mentioned in begining:

        $commandDB = new Commands();
        $commandDB->setCommand($command);
        $commandDB->setStatusCode(1);
        $commandDB->setOutput("added to DB");
        $commandDB->setCreatedAt($date);
        $commandDB->setServerID($serverid);

My guess is that apiplatform was able to take '/api/servers/1' and understand that this is IRI and it is entity, and controller is not, but is there's any way to fix it?

Thanks

CodePudding user response：

The error says that you must pass in an entity, not an id. Do something like this:

Inject a ManagerRegistry instance into your controller

private ManagerRegistry $managerRegistry;

public function __construct(ManagerRegistry $managerRegistry)
{
    $this->managerRegistry = $managerRegistry;
}

Then get your Servers object and set it into the Commands entity

$server = $this->managerRegistry->getRepository(Servers::class)->find($serverid);
$commandDB->setServerID($server);

CodePudding user response：

Well then, i solved it with help of @Harvey Dent my main problem was to get object to pass it in setServerID(); Harvey suggested ManagerRegistry but i used EntityManagerInterface instead becouse it was not working properly for me(null response).

this is part of code that is working for me:

$server = $em->getRepository(Servers::class)->findOneBy(['id' => $serverid,])

Thanks again Harvey for idea!