# Update from 2.0-BETA2 to 2.0-BETA3 ## Default Allocation Size for Sequences The default allocation size for sequences has been changed from 10 to 1. This step was made to not cause confusion with users and also because it is partly some kind of premature optimization. # Update from 2.0-BETA1 to 2.0-BETA2 There are no backwards incompatible changes in this release. # Upgrade from 2.0-ALPHA4 to 2.0-BETA1 ## EntityRepository deprecates access to protected variables Instead of accessing protected variables for the EntityManager in a custom EntityRepository it is now required to use the getter methods for all the three instance variables: * `$this->_em` now accessible through `$this->getEntityManager()` * `$this->_class` now accessible through `$this->getClassMetadata()` * `$this->_entityName` now accessible through `$this->getEntityName()` Important: For Beta 2 the protected visibility of these three properties will be changed to private! ## Console migrated to Symfony Console The Doctrine CLI has been replaced by Symfony Console Configuration Instead of having to specify: [php] $cliConfig = new CliConfiguration(); $cliConfig->setAttribute('em', $entityManager); You now have to configure the script like: [php] $helperSet = new \Symfony\Components\Console\Helper\HelperSet(array( 'db' => new \Doctrine\DBAL\Tools\Console\Helper\ConnectionHelper($em->getConnection()), 'em' => new \Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Console\Helper\EntityManagerHelper($em) )); ## Console: No need for Mapping Paths anymore In previous versions you had to specify the --from and --from-path options to show where your mapping paths are from the console. However this information is already known from the Mapping Driver configuration, so the requirement for this options were dropped. Instead for each console command all the entities are loaded and to restrict the operation to one or more sub-groups you can use the --filter flag. ## AnnotationDriver is not a default mapping driver anymore In conjunction with the recent changes to Console we realized that the annotations driver being a default metadata driver lead to lots of glue code in the console components to detect where entities lie and how to load them for batch updates like SchemaTool and other commands. However the annotations driver being a default driver does not really help that much anyways. Therefore we decided to break backwards compability in this issue and drop the support for Annotations as Default Driver and require our users to specify the driver explicitly (which allows us to ask for the path to all entities). If you are using the annotations metadata driver as default driver, you have to add the following lines to your bootstrap code: $driverImpl = $config->newDefaultAnnotationDriver(array(__DIR__."/Entities")); $config->setMetadataDriverImpl($driverImpl); You have to specify the path to your entities as either string of a single path or array of multiple paths to your entities. This information will be used by all console commands to access all entities. Xml and Yaml Drivers work as before! ## New inversedBy attribute It is now *mandatory* that the owning side of a bidirectional association specifies the 'inversedBy' attribute that points to the name of the field on the inverse side that completes the association. Example: [php] // BEFORE (ALPHA4 AND EARLIER) class User { //... /** @OneToOne(targetEntity="Address", mappedBy="user") */ private $address; //... } class Address { //... /** @OneToOne(targetEntity="User") */ private $user; //... } // SINCE BETA1 // User class DOES NOT CHANGE class Address { //... /** @OneToOne(targetEntity="User", inversedBy="address") */ private $user; //... } Thus, the inversedBy attribute is the counterpart to the mappedBy attribute. This change was necessary to enable some simplifications and further performance improvements. We apologize for the inconvenience. ## Default Property for Field Mappings The "default" option for database column defaults has been removed. If desired, database column defaults can be implemented by using the columnDefinition attribute of the @Column annotation (or the approriate XML and YAML equivalents). Prefer PHP default values, if possible. ## Selecting Partial Objects Querying for partial objects now has a new syntax. The old syntax to query for partial objects now has a different meaning. This is best illustrated by an example. If you previously had a DQL query like this: [sql] SELECT u.id, u.name FROM User u Since BETA1, simple state field path expressions in the select clause are used to select object fields as plain scalar values (something that was not possible before). To achieve the same result as previously (that is, a partial object with only id and name populated) you need to use the following, explicit syntax: [sql] SELECT PARTIAL u.{id,name} FROM User u ## XML Mapping Driver The 'inheritance-type' attribute changed to take last bit of ClassMetadata constant names, i.e. NONE, SINGLE_TABLE, INHERITANCE_TYPE_JOINED ## YAML Mapping Driver The way to specify lifecycle callbacks in YAML Mapping driver was changed to allow for multiple callbacks per event. The Old syntax ways: [yaml] lifecycleCallbacks: doStuffOnPrePersist: prePersist doStuffOnPostPersist: postPersist The new syntax is: [yaml] lifecycleCallbacks: prePersist: [ doStuffOnPrePersist, doOtherStuffOnPrePersistToo ] postPersist: [ doStuffOnPostPersist ] ## PreUpdate Event Listeners Event Listeners listening to the 'preUpdate' event can only affect the primitive values of entity changesets by using the API on the `PreUpdateEventArgs` instance passed to the preUpdate listener method. Any changes to the state of the entitys properties won't affect the database UPDATE statement anymore. This gives drastic performance benefits for the preUpdate event. ## Collection API The Collection interface in the Common package has been updated with some missing methods that were present only on the default implementation, ArrayCollection. Custom collection implementations need to be updated to adhere to the updated interface.