Merge branch '4.4' into 5.0

* 4.4:
  [Dotenv] Documentation improvement
  [DI] Clarified deprecation for TypedReference in 4.4
  [Validator] Add missing vietnamese translations
  add German translation
  add missing Messenger options to XML schema definition
  [Validator][ConstraintValidator] Update wrong PRETTY_DATE doc
  [DomCrawler][Form] Fix PHPDoc on get & offsetGet
  [ErrorHandler] fix parsing static return type on interface method annotation (fix #35836)
  prevent method calls on null values
  Return int if scale = 0

Encoder/XmlEncoder.php

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 namespace Symfony\Component\Serializer\Encoder;
 
+use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Exception\BadMethodCallException;
 use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Exception\NotEncodableValueException;
 use Symfony\Component\Serializer\SerializerAwareInterface;
 use Symfony\Component\Serializer\SerializerAwareTrait;
@@ -368,7 +369,7 @@ private function buildXml(\DOMNode $parentNode, $data, string $xmlRootNodeName =
         $removeEmptyTags = $this->context[self::REMOVE_EMPTY_TAGS] ?? $this->defaultContext[self::REMOVE_EMPTY_TAGS] ?? false;
         $encoderIgnoredNodeTypes = $this->context[self::ENCODER_IGNORED_NODE_TYPES] ?? $this->defaultContext[self::ENCODER_IGNORED_NODE_TYPES];
 
-        if (\is_array($data) || ($data instanceof \Traversable && !$this->serializer->supportsNormalization($data, $this->format))) {
+        if (\is_array($data) || ($data instanceof \Traversable && (null === $this->serializer || !$this->serializer->supportsNormalization($data, $this->format)))) {
             foreach ($data as $key => $data) {
                 //Ah this is the magic @ attribute types.
                 if (0 === strpos($key, '@') && $this->isElementNameValid($attributeName = substr($key, 1))) {
@@ -407,6 +408,10 @@ private function buildXml(\DOMNode $parentNode, $data, string $xmlRootNodeName =
         }
 
         if (\is_object($data)) {
+            if (null === $this->serializer) {
+                throw new BadMethodCallException(sprintf('The serializer needs to be set to allow %s() to be used with object data.', __METHOD__));
+            }
+
             $data = $this->serializer->normalize($data, $this->format, $this->context);
             if (null !== $data && !is_scalar($data)) {
                 return $this->buildXml($parentNode, $data, $xmlRootNodeName);
@@ -469,6 +474,10 @@ private function selectNodeType(\DOMNode $node, $val): bool
         } elseif ($val instanceof \Traversable) {
             $this->buildXml($node, $val);
         } elseif (\is_object($val)) {
+            if (null === $this->serializer) {
+                throw new BadMethodCallException(sprintf('The serializer needs to be set to allow %s() to be used with object data.', __METHOD__));
+            }
+
             return $this->selectNodeType($node, $this->serializer->normalize($val, $this->format, $this->context));
         } elseif (is_numeric($val)) {
             return $this->appendText($node, (string) $val);

Normalizer/ArrayDenormalizer.php

@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ public function denormalize($data, string $type, string $format = null, array $c
      */
     public function supportsDenormalization($data, string $type, string $format = null, array $context = []): bool
     {
+        if (null === $this->serializer) {
+            throw new BadMethodCallException(sprintf('The serializer needs to be set to allow %s() to be used.', __METHOD__));
+        }
+
         return '[]' === substr($type, -2)
             && $this->serializer->supportsDenormalization($data, substr($type, 0, -2), $format, $context);
     }