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// $jsonContent contains {"name":"Jane Doe"}

Preserving Empty Objetcs
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By default, the Serializer will transform an empty array to `[]`.
You can change this behavior by setting the ``AbstractObjectNormalizer::PRESERVE_EMPTY_OBJECTS`` context option
to ``true``, when the value is `\ArrayObject()` the serialization would be `{}`.

Handling Uninitialized Properties
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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