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Doctrine Annotation Integration

I hoped to add Doctrine to my Zend Framework 2 project.

One crucial oversight I ran into was that the module's config file (config/module.config.php) needs to have 'namespace ____' before returning an array if you want to use the abstract doctrine settings below:

'doctrine' => array(

'driver' => array(

__NAMESPACE__ . '_entity' => array(

'class' => 'Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Driver\AnnotationDriver',

'cache' => 'array',

'paths' => array(__DIR__ . '/../src/' . __NAMESPACE__ . '/Entity')

),

'orm_default' => array(

'drivers' => array(

__NAMESPACE__ . '\Entity' => __NAMESPACE__ . '_entity'

)

)

),

),

Aside from that, I also needed to add

'enable_default_entities' => false,

to the zfcuser.global.php config file located in the project root's config/autoload folder. Aside from that, a typical entity looks like

namespace ModuleNamespace\Entity; use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM; /** * @ORM\Entity * @ORM\Table(name="address") */ class Address { ... }

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PHPUnit Testing, Composer, and Zend Framework 2

I've installed the ZfcUser module in a Zend Framework 2 skeleton application using Composer, and I want to add unit testing. Out of the box, the Zend Tutorial for adding unit testing to your project was helpful, but incomplete.

After following along, I got the following exception:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend\ModuleManager\Exception\RuntimeException' with message 'Module (ZfcBase) could not be initialized.

So I googled around some stack exchange threads and eventually came across a suggestion (for non-composer users) to add the autoload_classmap files to the library modules directly.

In the test directory's Bootstrap.php file, I looked for AutoloaderFactory::factory and added another key/value pair to the configuration passed in

AutoloaderFactory::factory(array(

'Zend\Loader\StandardAutoloader' => array(

'autoregister_zf' => true,

'namespaces' => array(

__NAMESPACE__ => __DIR__ . '/' . __NAMESPACE__,

),

),

'Zend\Loader\ClassMapAutoloader' => array(

__DIR__ . '/../../../vendor/zf-commons/zfc-base/autoload_classmap.php',

__DIR__ . '/../../../vendor/zf-commons/zfc-user/autoload_classmap.php',

),

));

basically targeting those external autoloader classmap files directly. That seemed to get things moving in the right direction. I now had a new, more encouraging exception:

Zend\ServiceManager\Exception\ServiceNotCreatedException: An exception was raised while creating "Navigation"; no instance returned

I defined (in ./config/autoload/global.php) the nav configuration: 

'navigation' => array(

'default' => array(

array(

'label' => 'Home',

'route' => 'home',

'resource' => 'home',

),

... more links ...

),

)

and the site itself loads in the browser but the unit test seems to fail loading that configuration. Then I discovered that the project's config/application.config.php file needed to be modified.

The 'config_glob_paths' array needed the default 'config/autoload/{,*.}{global,local}.php" value updated to use a path relative to the config file (so a test suite with a differing file structure would still find the correct global autload file.

I put the following:

  'config_glob_paths' => array(

__DIR__ . '/autoload/{,*.}{global,local}.php',

),

And lo, my site both loaded in the browser and ran through the phpunit tests I had defined!