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Tom
Tom

Reputation: 1991

Doctrine 2 PrePersist doesn't fire

Within the same entity I have a PreUpdate and a PrePersist. The PreUpdate fires, but the PrePersist never does. I put a die() after the flush and comments within the lifecycle callbacks. Full entity can be seen at http://pastebin.com/yUk1u4GQ

Entity callbacks

/**
* @PreUpdate
*/
public function fixDates(){
    $this->updatedOn = $this->getNow();
    $this->closedDate = null;
    $this->openDate = null;
    print "dates fixed";
}

/**
* @PrePersist
*/
public function prePersist() {
    print 'in prePersist';
    die();
}

Entity Manager calls

$em->persist($school);

$em->flush();
die();

My screen reads "dates fixed", but not the prePersist message. I do have the @HasLifecycleCallbacks at the top of the entity.

Upvotes: 27

Views: 17134

Answers (5)

Urgotto
Urgotto

Reputation: 863

Maybe it version dependent but my working annotations have a next view:

Life cycle class annotation:

/**
 * @Entity @Table(name="table_name")
 * @HasLifecycleCallbacks
 **/

Events annotations:

/** @PrePersist **/
/** @PreUpdate **/

That is all that i have in Model.

Upvotes: 5

Martini
Martini

Reputation: 167

I know this question is almost 2 years old, but I just had the exact same problem and since this doesn't have an accepted answer I want to share one last thing everyone else forgot to mention.

Although it seems that the triggered method will be used only by the entity class itself, it's scope should be kept public. My method wasn't triggering just because I marked it as a protected one. I hope this will help someone.

Upvotes: 11

Thierry Daguin
Thierry Daguin

Reputation: 885

Don't forget to enable Lifecycle Callbacks in your class annotation :

/**
 * Report\MainBundle\Entity\Serveur
 * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks
 */
class Serveur {

Upvotes: 69

Johan
Johan

Reputation: 913

PrePersist is fired only when you are performing INSERT statement, not UPDATE statement.

When testing, don't forget that the UPDATE statement is fired only when the entity attributes really change. If the Entity Manager is being called to persist that entity, it first looks if there are any changes. If not, no sql query is performed and no @PreUpdate method is called.

Upvotes: 42

Besnik
Besnik

Reputation: 6529

I just had the same problem. Hope this helps you:

I forgot to import the annotations with the use statement. If you try this dont forget to add the "ORM" prefix:

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

// ...

/**
* @ORM\PreUpdate
*/
public function preUpdate()
{
}

Upvotes: 6

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