Symfony: can't enable custom repository

Question

I'm trying to use a custom repository for my symfony 2.8 website:

Custom repository:

// src/AppBundle/Entity/ExperimentationRepository
namespace AppBundle\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;

class ExperimentationRepository extends EntityRepository
{    
    public function getExperimentationByUser($id){
        // do stuff and return results
    }    
}

Entity:

// src/AppBundle/Entity/Experimentation
namespace AppBundle\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

/**
 * Experimentation
 *
 * @ORM\Table(name="experimentation")
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="AppBundle\Entity\ExperimentationRepository")
 */
class Experimentation{
   // sutff
}

Controller (where I try to use the custom repository, in another bundle):

// src/ManageBundle/Controller/ManageController
$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$experimentations = $em->getRepository('AppBundle:Experimentation')->getExperimentationByUser($id);

I got the following error:

Undefined method 'getExperimentationByUser'. The method name must start with either findBy or findOneBy!

After some research, I've tried to check if my custom repository was called or not:

$repository=$this->getDoctrine()
        ->getRepository('AppBundle:Experimentation');
        $repositoryClass=get_class($repository);
echo $repositoryClass;
exit;

Which returns:

Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository

So I guess my custom repository isn't called at all. But I can't manage to find why. I've tried several actions (after some digging):

clear the cache (app/console cache:clear)
clear doctrine cache (app/console doctrine:cache:clear-metadata)
check config.yml (under doctrine:orm): auto_mapping: true
check config.yml (under doctrine:dbal): type: annotation
I don't have any config/doctrine folder (is that normal?)

Nothing worked. Still got the same error. It's look like the framework completely ignore the annotation in the entity class. Any idea/suggestion?

Thanks for your help!

Quite a mystery. You only have one entity manager defined? I suspect a simple typo somewhere. Does app/console doctrine:mapping:info pick up the entity? And yes it is normal to have config/doctrine to be empty when using annotations. config/doctrine is where yaml or xml mapping files normally live. In fact if you had files there then the annotations would be ignored. — Cerad
Entities are generated. app/console doctrine:mapping:info picks all of them with the "OK" tag. — DavidL
Try once to change your entity annotation to ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Test"). You should get a fatal error: Fatal error: Class 'Test' not found in... If you don't get this error then the annotation is not read correctly. — Wilt
Grasping for straws here. Are you positive you have edited the correct Experimentation.php file? I have sometimes gotten confused and edited a completely different file in a different project or have forgotten to save my changes. Have you checked your code into github? I'll take a look if you have. Got to be a simple config error somewhere. — Cerad

scoolnico scoolnico · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-08T12:17:44

Did you try like that:

// src/ManageBundle/Controller/ManageController

$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$repository = $em->getRepository('AppBundle:Experimentation');
$experimentations = $repository->getExperimentationByUser($id);

And generate entity

php app/console doctrine:generate:entities Experimentation

Symfony: can't enable custom repository

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