Generating a single Entity from existing database using symfony2 and doctrine

Question

Is it possible to generate a single entity from database using the Symfony2 console tool?

In the middle of coding I had to add a table and there are modifications made to the existing entity classes. So I don't want all my entities regenerated.

Any suggestions will be appreciated!

Answer 1

I had the same problem, you've to do this way:

php app/console doctrine:mapping:convert metadata_format \     ./src/App/MyBundle/Resources/config/doctrine \     --from-database \     --filter="Yourtablename" 

Then

php app/console doctrine:mapping:import AppMyBundle \     metadata_format --filter="Yourtablename" 

Where metadata_format is the file ending you want to generate (e.g. xml, yml, annotation)

And finally

php app/console doctrine:generate:entities AppMyBundle --no-backup 

Like this doctrine will load only the entity you need. Just be carefull on the filter you must use the CamelCase !

Hope this will help you

Answer 2

For the third command, doctrine kept regenerating all of the Entity files. By adding the entity name after the bundle, it only generated the entity I was interested in.

php app/console doctrine:generate:entities AppMyBundle:Yourtablename --no-backup