Doctrine 2: Update Entity Using Table Schema - php

Question

I am using doctrine 2 within zend framework 2. To generate methods from existing entities using database table, the console command used is:
php doctrine-module orm:generate-entities --generate-annotations="true" --generate-methods="true" module
I have two namespaces Blog and Location
My question is:
1. When I run above code, only blog entities get updated. I want to know why it is behaving like this?
2. If I want to update only a specific entity, how can i do it?
The blog has two entities: Post and cateogry
Category.php
<?php
namespace Blog\Entity;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Zend\InputFilter\Factory as InputFactory;
use Zend\InputFilter\InputFilter;
use Zend\InputFilter\InputFilterAwareInterface;
use Zend\InputFilter\InputFilterInterface;
/**
* Category
*
* #ORM\Table(name="Categories")
* #ORM\Entity
*/
class Category implements InputFilterAwareInterface
{
/**
* #var integer
*
* #ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="IDENTITY")
*/
private $id;
/**
* #var string
*
* #ORM\Column(name="name", type="string", nullable=false)
*/
private $name;
protected $inputFilter;
/**
* Get Id
*
* #param integer
*/
public function getId()
{
return $this->id;
}
/**
* Set name
*
* #param string $name
* #return Category
*/
public function setName($name)
{
$this->name = $name;
return $this;
}
/**
* Get name
*
* #return string
*/
public function getName()
{
return $this->name;
}
}
Post.php
namespace Blog\Entity;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
/**
* Post
*
* #ORM\Table(name="posts")
* #ORM\Entity
* #ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks
*/
class Post
{
/**
* #var integer
*
* #ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer", precision=0, scale=0, nullable=false, unique=false)
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="IDENTITY")
*/
private $id;
/**
* #var string
*
* #ORM\Column(name="title", type="string", precision=0, scale=0, nullable=false, unique=false)
*/
private $title;
/**
* #var string
*
* #ORM\Column(name="content", type="text", precision=0, scale=0, nullable=false, unique=false)
*/
private $content;
/**
* #var \DateTime
*
* #ORM\Column(name="created_date", type="datetime", precision=0, scale=0, nullable=false, unique=false)
*/
private $createdDate;
/**
* #var \Blog\Entity\Category
*
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Blog\Entity\Category")
* #ORM\JoinColumns({
* #ORM\JoinColumn(name="category_id", referencedColumnName="id", nullable=true)
* })
*/
private $category;
/**
* Get id
*
* #return integer
*/
public function getId()
{
return $this->id;
}
/**
* Set title
*
* #param string $title
* #return Post
*/
public function setTitle($title)
{
$this->title = $title;
return $this;
}
/**
* Get title
*
* #return string
*/
public function getTitle()
{
return $this->title;
}
/**
* Set content
*
* #param string $content
* #return Post
*/
public function setContent($content)
{
$this->content = $content;
return $this;
}
/**
* Get content
*
* #return string
*/
public function getContent()
{
return $this->content;
}
/**
* Set createdDate
*
* #param \DateTime $createdDate
* #return Post
*/
public function setCreatedDate($createdDate)
{
$this->createdDate = $createdDate;
return $this;
}
/**
* Get createdDate
*
* #return \DateTime
*/
public function getCreatedDate()
{
return $this->createdDate;
}
/**
* Set category
*
* #param \Blog\Entity\Category $category
* #return Post
*/
public function setCategory(\Blog\Entity\Category $category = null)
{
$this->category = $category;
return $this;
}
/**
* Get category
*
* #return \Blog\Entity\Category
*/
public function getCategory()
{
return $this->category;
}
}
The Location has Country.php
<?php
namespace Country\Entity;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
/**
* Country
*
* #ORM\Table(name="countries")
* #ORM\Entity
*/
class Country
{
/**
* #var integer
*
* #ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer", nullable=false)
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="IDENTITY")
*/
private $id;
/**
* #var string
*
* #ORM\Column(name="name", type="string", length=55, nullable=false)
*/
private $name;
}

Answer 1

OF Course everyone need a function on ZF2 that's turns to possible you generate a single entity. but those times you can't do it just by doctrine-orm-module. When you try to run doctrine in Symphony it's acceptable. I'm using doctrine2 with zf2 having the same issue.
I create a PHP Script that I call
Script to Create a Single Entity:
Choose Entity Name.
Generate All Entities on a Temp Folder.
Exclude All non-needed entities from folder.
Copy Single Entity to "src/$module/Entity" Folder.
Is a hack that i got to make it work property as you need.

Answer 2

Use the --filter option to do this.
php doctrine-module orm:generate-entities --filter="Post" ...