symfony2.5 maxlength deprecated

Question

I would like to know why was max_length in form type deprecated?

And how to achieve the desired effect the cleanest way now ?

Answer 1

See related issue on Github. This option only add html attribute to textarea. You can manually add it via attributes:

$builder->add('field', 'textarea', array(
    'attr' => array('maxlength' => 255),
));