Deserialization fails with groups

[reypm]

Q	A
Bug report?	yes
Feature request?	no
BC Break report?	no
RFC?	no

Steps required to reproduce the problem

1. Having a DTO class as follow:

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\DTO;

use JMS\Serializer\Annotation\ExclusionPolicy;
use JMS\Serializer\Annotation\Groups as SerializerGroups;
use JMS\Serializer\Annotation\Type as SerializerType;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\DateTime;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\NotBlank;

#[ExclusionPolicy('NONE')]
class TestDTO
{
    #[SerializerType('string')]
    #[SerializerGroups(['groupA'])]
    #[NotBlank]
    #[DateTime(format: 'Y-m-d H:i:s')]
    public string $date;

    #[SerializerType('string')]
    #[SerializerGroups(['groupA'])]
    #[NotBlank]
    public string $propA;

    #[SerializerType('string')]
    #[SerializerGroups(['groupB'])]
    #[NotBlank]
    public string $propB;
}

2. Having the following JSON payload:

    {
      "date": "2021-07-24 13:05:00",
      "propA": "some",
      "propB": "other"
    }

3. And trying to deserialize the above JSON into TestDTO as follow:

$deserializationContext = (DeserializationContext::create())->enableMaxDepthChecks()->setGroups(['groupA]);
$this->serializer->deserialize(json_encode($json), TestDTO::class, 'json', $deserializationContext);

Expected Result

• A valid TestDTO object with $date and $propA filled properly

Actual Result

• An invalid TestDTO object without $date and $propA

I am not sure if I am missing something but I have read the docs several times and apparently I am not missing anything in my code.

Installed JMS packages version:

jms/metadata                                   2.5.1              Class/method/property metadata management in PHP
jms/serializer                                 3.14.0             Library for (de-)serializing data of any complexity; supports XML, JSON, and YAML.
jms/serializer-bundle                          3.8.0              Allows you to easily serialize, and deserialize data of any complexity

[goetas]

can yo please reproduce the issue in a separate repo or send a failing test case?

[reypm]

@goetas I am busy atm but I'll keep an eye on this. While I am not using groups anymore I will prepare a repo with a simple demo for this and see if the error persists in the latest versions if not then I will close this issue.