Symfony doctrine:schema:update not working - php

Question

I have a strange problem :
I have an application symfony 2.3 (with sonata user)
I created a bundle with one entity - the entity was created without a problem
then I had to modify the entity and now it seems to be impossible to modify the schema :
To see what happens I increased all the string lengths with +1
The entity code (with annotations) :
namespace Too\ConfigAppBundle\Entity;
use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
/**
* ConfigApp
*
* #ORM\Table(name="ConfigApp")
* #ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Too\ConfigAppBundle\Entity\ActiviteRepository")
*/
class ConfigApp
{
/**
* #var integer $id
*
* #ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
*/
private $id;
/**
* #var string $nom
*
* #ORM\Column(name="nom", type="string", length=101, unique=true)
*/
private $nom;
/**
* #var string $nomSlug
*
* #Gedmo\Slug(fields={"nom"}, updatable=true, separator="_")
* #ORM\Column(name="nomSlug", type="string", length=101, nullable=true)
*/
private $nomSlug;
/**
* #var string $email
*
* #ORM\Column(name="email", type="string", length=151)
*/
private $email;
/**
* #var string $telephone
*
* #ORM\Column(name="telephone", type="string", length=16)
*/
private $telephone;
/**
* #var datetime $cree_le
*
* #Gedmo\Timestampable(on="create")
* #ORM\Column(name="cree_le", type="datetime")
*/
private $cree_le;
/**
* #var datetime $modifie_le
*
* #Gedmo\Timestampable(on="update")
* #ORM\Column(name="modifie_le", type="datetime")
*/
private $modifie_le;
...
Now see the result of :
php app/console doctrine:schema:update --dump-sql
CREATE TABLE ConfigApp (id INT AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL, nom VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, nomSlug VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, email VARCHAR(150) NOT NULL, telephone VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL, cree_le DATETIME NOT NULL, modifie_le DATETIME NOT NULL, PRIMARYKEY(id)) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci ENGINE = InnoDB
None of the new length is taken in account :
for example the field nom should have length=101,
but the dump-sql gives nom VARCHAR(100) !
Could anyone try to figure out whats going wrong ?
Thanks !
EDIT :
I tried to clear the cache before with :
* php app/console doctrine:cache:clear-metadata
* php app/console cache:clear
* by deleting all content in cache folders
I also tried --dump-sql and --force.
This changes nothing at all.
Please any hint would be welcome !

Answer 1

I just ended up on the exact same issue: schema doesn't update.
Note that --force returns exactly the same thing as --dump-sql, the only difference is that --force runs the SQL against the database.
Although, in my case, the issue wasn't because of the .orm.xml file. It was because I've set this in the config_dev.xml:
doctrine:
orm:
metadata_cache_driver:
type: memcached
host: localhost
port: 11211
instance_class: Memcached
query_cache_driver:
type: memcached
host: localhost
port: 11211
instance_class: Memcached
result_cache_driver:
type: memcached
host: localhost
port: 11211
instance_class: Memcached
Even when I issue an often salvatory:
php app/console cache:clear
the memcached data isn't flushed. So I had to restart memcached, then everything was up and running again!
So thanks for your question, it led me to the right spot in my case.
UPDATE: as Phil suggested above, running this command does the trick too:
php app/console doctrine:cache:clear-metadata

Answer 2

It is possible that you forget to enable Doctrine auto mapping;
orm:
#auto_mapping: true
If auto mapping is disabled (or commented like above) , you should register Entities of each bundle manually.
orm:
entity_managers:
default:
mappings:
AcmeHelloBundle: ~

Answer 3

Try to use YAML instead of the default annotation when you run
php app/console doctrine:generate:entity
Or instead of running
app/console doctrine:schema:update --force
You can just manually create your MySql table which is a very tedious task

Answer 4

I found the solution :
I did not see before but there was a doctrine folder in src\Too\ConfigAppBundle\Resources\config containing a file called ConfigApp.orm.yml :
Too\ConfigAppBundle\Entity\ConfigApp:
type: entity
table: null
repositoryClass: Too\ConfigAppBundle\Entity\ConfigAppRepository
fields:
id:
type: integer
id: true
generator:
strategy: AUTO
nom:
type: string
length: '100'
nomSlug:
type: string
length: '100'
email:
type: string
length: '150'
telephone:
type: string
length: '15'
cree_le:
type: datetime
length: null
modifie_le:
type: datetime
length: null
lifecycleCallbacks: { }
I deleted this folder and now updating the schema works again.
Surely I did something to generate this doctrine folder but I don't know what it was - if someone could tell me how this stuff is generated - and why ?

Answer 5

Though some of the answers given by #rai and others are correct, one more suggestion for Symfony version is equal to or above 3.0 please use bin/console instead app/console, as shown below,
bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force

Answer 6

i think its beacause of the doctrine:mapping:import command. This command stores the schema of an existing database into .orm.xml files. Probebly you execute this command.
I had the same issue, coast me a lot of time to find out.

Answer 7

Because I was using .orm.yml-mapping I had the issue that I created the doctrine-folder, in which the yml mappings were present, under the wrong path, so I fixed it by moving the doctrine-folder to the the config folder:
...\BundleName\Resources\config\doctrine\MyEntity.orm.yml

Answer 8

Try
php app/console doctrine:schema:update --force
this is update your database schema with entity

Answer 9

Type php app/console help doctrine:schema:update in CLI
--dump-sql Dumps the generated SQL statements to the screen (does no
t execute them).
...
--force Causes the generated SQL statements to be physically exec
uted against your database.
So try the --force instead of --dump-sql.
And here is the command for cache clearing :
php app/console cache:clear
Don't forget to use the help keyword before a command namespace in order to get the help message for that command.
Hope it helps