Error when changing to fluent about fluent

[patrickbrouwers]

Currently Fluent with Gedmo extensions is not supported yet, we are working on it.
You will have to add both Fluent and annotations driver to the mapping driver chain.

[CImrie]

I'm not sure if this is going to be any help or not, but I've spent a fair bit today trying to get my head around Fluent / Gedmo Extensions.

Fixing the error above

To get GedmoExtensions working in a 'hybrid' mode while we wait for Fluent to support them, you can do the following:

1. Create your own custom service provider (or alternatively edit the existing one - though not recommended). I placed my one in App\Providers\DoctrineServiceProvider.php, and register this in your config/app.php file.
2. Add the following to the boot() method:

AnnotationRegistry::registerFile(base_path('vendor/doctrine/orm/lib/Doctrine/ORM/Mapping/Driver/DoctrineAnnotations.php');

This loads the annotations needed to prevent the error

[Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationException] [Semantical Error] The annotation "@doctrine\ORM\Mapping\MappedSuperclass" in class Gedmo\Translatable\Entity\MappedSuperclass\AbstractPersonalTranslation does not exist, or could not be auto-loaded.

Using the extensions

To get Timestampable working, I then imported 'TimestampableEntity' trait from Gedmo into my Entity, and in the normal Fluent Mapping file for that entity, add the following:

$builder->timestamp('createdAt');
$builder->timestamp('updatedAt');

To get Soft Deletes working, I did a similar thing by importing 'SoftDeleteableEntity'. Make sure to add the following to your mapping:

$builder->timestamp('deletedAt');

Unfortunately Gedmo still expects you to tell it which classes are 'SoftDeleteable' - so you have to place this at the top of any entities you want to use soft deletes on:

use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;
/**
 * @Gedmo\SoftDeleteable(fieldName="deletedAt", timeAware=false)
 */
class MyEntity  {
...

--- this is all a bit hacky but hopefully just a temporary fix until they are fully supported.

[patrickbrouwers]

We are currently working on fully supporting Gedmo extensions. Hope to have it finished this weekend.

Will be as simple as

$builder->timestamps();
$builder->dateTime('createdAt')->timestampable()->onCreate();

[CImrie]

@patrickbrouwers Excellent, thanks for the update. Look forward to seeing how it will be implemented :)

[najdias]

@CImrie Thanks for the fix but maybe I will wait to be fully supported as @patrickbrouwers said.
Thank you both.

[patrickbrouwers]

With the version 1.1 release, Fluent officially supports gedmo extensions. Please let us know your experience :)