Symfony2 Expected argument of type "object or array", "string" given

Question

I'm trying desperately to save the form with entity City OneToMany Anagrafic. I entered the "property_path" CityType the form and I returned error,

Expected argument of type “object or array”, “string” given

I do not understand what I'm doing wrong!

class Anagrafic
{
/**
 * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="City", inversedBy="anagrafics", cascade={"persist"})
 * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="city_id", referencedColumnName="id")
*/
private $city;
//..
//..
class City
{
/**
 * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Anagrafic", mappedBy="city", cascade={"persist"})
 */
private $anagrafics;
//...
//...
class CityType extends AbstractType
{
public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
{
    $builder->add('comune', 'hidden', array('property_path' => 'city.id'))
//..
//..
class AnagraficType extends AbstractType
{
public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
{
    $builder->add('city', new CityType())

EDIT: Sorry for the incomplete information, this is the exception:

CRITICAL - Symfony\Component\Form\Exception\UnexpectedTypeException: 
Expected argument of type "object or array", "string" given (uncaught exception) at
 /var/www/MyBusiness0_1/vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Component/Form/Util/PropertyPath.php line 342 


/var/www/MyBusiness0_1/vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Component/Form/Util/PropertyPath.php at line 342   
    for ($i = 0; $i <= $lastIndex; ++$i) {
        if (!is_object($objectOrArray) && !is_array($objectOrArray)) {
            throw new UnexpectedTypeException($objectOrArray, 'object or array');
        }
        $property = $this->elements[$i];

Solution

the problem was that when you pass a string or a number, symfony expects an object, so we need to implement a DataTransformer to turn a string into object and vice versa.

http://symfony.com/doc/master/cookbook/form/data_transformers.html

Problem solved! ;-)

Comments

[cheesemacfly]

What error do you have?

[Fusselchen]

it is a quiz! "I got an error, and will not show the complete code or point of error"

[Lughino]

It is in title. Expected argument of type “object or array”, “string” given

[Bram Gerritsen]

... on line ... in file ...

[Lughino]

I don't understand what you mean by "... on line ... in file ..."

[Bram Gerritsen]

Normally when you get a exception, parse error, syntax error etc. there will be the file and linenumber listed on which the error occured. If you post the corresponding code maybe we could help you.

[Lughino]

Sorry, I update the question!

[Lughino]

the fact is that if you do not use the "property_path", I receive this error: An exception occurred while executing 'INSERT INTO City (city, zip, region_id, state_id) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)' with params {"1":"8094","2":null,"3":null,"4":null}: SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1048 Column 'zip' cannot be null Try to save a new entity City, but City is a list of cities already predefined and the relationship City OneToMany Anagrafic should not have to create a new entity! What is wrong?