How to create tests w/Doctrine entities without persisting them (how to set id)

Question

I\'m working on tests for a Symfony2 project, and right now I\'m looking for a way to create tests involving entity objects without persisting them. The problem is: id

Answer 1

You can configure doctrine to use an in-memory database in your app/config/config_test.yml.

# app/config/config_test
doctrine:
    dbal:
        driver: pdo_sqlite
        path: :memory:
        memory: true

This speeds up the process and you can quickly persist some fixtures in the setUp() method that will have (auto-generated) id's after flushing... all without messing with your "real" database.

You can find some inspiration in this answer and this blog post.