Symfony2 - Doctrine and FOSUserBundle - wrong annotations - php

Question

I am new to Symfony2 in general. This issue relates to Doctrine and FOSUserBundle though.
I have the following User.php Entity created based on FOSUserBundle and a self-referencing many-to many.
<?php
namespace Pan100\MoodLogBundle\Entity;
use FOS\UserBundle\Entity\User as BaseUser;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
/**
* #ORM\Entity
* #ORM\Table(name="fos_user")
*/
class User extends BaseUser
{
/**
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\Column(type="integer")
* #ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
*/
protected $id;
/**
* #ManyToMany(targetEntity="User", mappedBy="hasAccessToMe")
**/
protected $hasAccessTo;
/**
* #ManyToMany(targetEntity="User", inversedBy="hasAccessTo")
* #JoinTable(name="access",
* joinColumns={#JoinColumn(name="id", referencedColumnName="id")},
* inverseJoinColumns={#JoinColumn(name="accessor_id", referencedColumnName="id")}
* )
**/
private $hasAccessToMe;
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
$this->hasAccessTo = new \Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection();
$this->hasAccessToMe = new \Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection();
}
}
Gives me the following error when attempting to update cache or drop:
[Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationException]
[Semantical Error] The annotation "#ManyToMany" in property Pan100\MoodLog
Bundle\Entity\User::$hasAccessTo was never imported. Did you maybe forget
to add a "use" statement for this annotation?
What is wrong here? And what is a "use statement"?

Answer 1

You forgot to add the #ORM\ prefix in your annotations:
/**
* #ManyToMany(targetEntity="User", mappedBy="hasAccessToMe")
**/
should be
/**
* #ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="User", mappedBy="hasAccessToMe")
**/

Answer 2

You could also import each annotation individually — the way I prefer:
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Entity;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ManyToMany;
// ...
/**
* #Entity
*/
class User
{
/**
* #ManyToMany(targetEntity="Thing")
*/
private $things;
// ...
}