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TypehintableBehavior

The TypehintableBehavior behavior allows you to add typehints to generated methods (in Base classes).

Installation

Cherry-pick the TypehintableBehavior.php file is src/, put it somewhere, then add the following line to your propel.ini or build.properties configuration file:

propel.behavior.typehintable.class = path.to.TypehintableBehavior

Usage

Just add the following XML tag in your schema.xml file:

<behavior name="typehintable">
    <parameter name="COLUMN_NAME" value="TYPEHINT" />
    <parameter name="RELATED_TABLE_NAME" value="TYPEHINT" />
</behavior>

If you fill in a column name as parameter's name, the typehint will be added to the corresponding setter methods (setRoles() for instance). If you fill in a related table name as parameter's name, the typehint will be added to the adder/remover methods (addGroup(), removeGroup() for instance).

You can also specify nullable method signatures (setFoo(Foo $foo = null)):

<parameter name="nullable_columns" value="COLUMN_NAME, RELATED_TABLE_NAME" />

Example

<table name="user">
    <column name="id" type="integer" required="true" primaryKey="true" autoIncrement="true" />
    <column name="username" type="varchar" size="255" primaryString="true" />
    <column name="roles" type="array" />

    <behavior name="typehintable">
		<!-- A column -->
        <parameter name="roles" value="array" />
        <!-- A related table -->
		<parameter name="group" value="\FOS\UserBundle\Model\GroupInterface" />
    </behavior>
</table>

<table name="group">
	<column name="id" type="integer" required="true" primaryKey="true" autoIncrement="true" />
	<column name="name" type="varchar" size="255" required="true" primaryString="true" />
</table>

<table name="user_group" isCrossRef="true">
	<column name="user_id" type="integer" required="true" primaryKey="true" />
	<column name="group_id" type="integer" required="true" primaryKey="true" />

	<foreign-key foreignTable="user">
		<reference local="user_id" foreign="id" />
	</foreign-key>

	<foreign-key foreignTable="group">
		<reference local="group_id" foreign="id" />
	</foreign-key>
</table>

It will generate the following code in the BaseUser class:

<?php

use FOS\UserBundle\Model\GroupInterface;

// ...

public function setRoles(array $v)
{
    if ($this->roles_unserialized !== $v) {
        $this->roles_unserialized = $v;
        $this->roles = '| ' . implode(' | ', $v) . ' |';
        $this->modifiedColumns[] = UserPeer::ROLES;
    }

    return $this;
}

public function addGroup(GroupInterface $group)
{
    if ($this->collGroups === null) {
        $this->initGroups();
    }
    if (!$this->collGroups->contains($group)) { // only add it if the **same** object is not already associated
        $this->doAddGroup($group);

        $this->collGroups[]= $group;
    }
}

Credits

William Durand william.durand1@gmail.com