how to get the type of a doctrine entity property

Question

Actually I have a doctrine entity that I need to fill its prperties dynamically.

I\'d like to be able to do something like this:

$entity = new Entity         


        

Answer 1

For case if you have few different annotations for entity field in any order.
Note: this code is not detect related entities (ManyToOne, OneToMany and etc).

use Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationReader;

/**
 * @param $entity
 * @param $fieldName
 * @return mixed|null
 */
private function getFieldType($entity, $fieldName)
{
    $annotationReader = new AnnotationReader();
    $refClass = new ReflectionClass($entity);
    $annotations = $annotationReader->getPropertyAnnotations($refClass->getProperty($fieldName));

    if (count($annotations) > 0) {
        foreach ($annotations as $annotation) {
            if (
                $annotation instanceof \Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Column
                && property_exists($annotation, 'type')
            ) {
                return $annotation->type;
            }
        }
    }

    return null;
}