Specify the table type/storage engine in Doctrine 2

Question

So how can one specify the storage engine to use for a given entity in Doctrine 2?

I'm creating a table that needs a full text index and only the MyISAM storage engine supports full text indexing in MySQL.

As a side: it looks like Doctrine 2 doesn't support full text indexing out of the box? Nor full text searches? Is that correct?

Answer 1

I'm two years too late, but knowing this is important since it isn't documented for some reason, we have been struggling to achieve this but this is the solution

/**
 * ReportData
 *
 * @ORM\Table(name="reports_report_data",options={"engine":"MyISAM"})
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Jac\ReportGeneratorBundle\Entity\ReportDataRepository")
 */
class ReportData
{

Answer 2

Update:

See the comment about adding "@Table(name="table_name",options={"engine"="MyISAM"})" , it is the better answer.

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This is untested code aimed to help you get to an answer, you will need to read a lot of Doctrine2 code to figure out what you want though. I spent about 30mins reading code and couldnt find a way to push the $options array through the ORM layer to this DBAL layer function.

check out Doctrine/DBAL/Platforms/MySQLPlatform.php

427         // get the type of the table
428         if (isset($options['engine'])) {
429             $optionStrings[] = 'ENGINE = ' . $options['engine'];
430         } else {
431             // default to innodb
432             $optionStrings[] = 'ENGINE = InnoDB';
433         }

try hard coding what engine want in there. It will almost certainly break stuff though (eg, foreign keys dont work in MyISAM)