Using Doctrine 2 Annotation reader for customized annotations

Question

I'm pretty new to Doctrine 2 and am using annotations to do my database mapping. I want to take things a little bit further and use some custom annotations. The aim is to be able to make forms and such that can have settings created through annotations. I'm having trouble reading ANY annotations - even class ones such as @Table aren't being returned from the parser.

I am using Codeigniter 2 and Modular Extensions. In my controller I have:

$reader = new \Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationReader();
$reader->setDefaultAnnotationNamespace('MyCompany\Annotations');
$reflClass = new ReflectionClass('models\User');
$classAnnotations = $reader->getClassAnnotations($reflClass);
print_r($classAnnotations);

Which returns an empty array.

I then have a file in my libraries/annotations folder, Bar.php:

namespace MyCompany\Annotations;

class Bar extends \Doctrine\Common\Annotations\Annotation
{
    public $foo;
}

and lastly, my user model:

/**
* @Entity
* @Table(name="user")
* @MyCompany\Annotations\Bar(foo="bar")
* @MyCompany\Annotations\Foo(bar="foo")
*/

class User {

}

I am trying to follow this example: http://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/common/2.0/docs/reference/annotations/en#setup-and-configuration

Thanks for your help in advance!

Mark.

Answer 1

use

Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationRegistry

AnnotationRegistry::RegisterLoader($universalClassLoader);
AnnotationRegistry::RegisterFile(__DIR__ . ' PATH_TO_DoctrineAnnotations.php ');