What do you use instead of ENUM in doctrine2?

Question

What do you use instead of ENUM in Doctrine2? smallint? I thought of using varchar, or explicitly define char, but this may not be very effective when it comes to indexes, or am

Answer 1

If you want MySQL ENUMs using MySQL and Symfony, you can now use an easy way for that without any dependencies

use a base class for all enums:

values);

        return "ENUM(".implode(", ", $values).")";
    }

    public function convertToPHPValue($value, AbstractPlatform $platform)
    {
        return $value;
    }

    public function convertToDatabaseValue($value, AbstractPlatform $platform)
    {
        if (!in_array($value, $this->values)) {
            throw new \InvalidArgumentException("Invalid '".$this->name."' value.");
        }
        return $value;
    }

    public function getName()
    {
        return $this->name;
    }

    public function requiresSQLCommentHint(AbstractPlatform $platform)
    {
        return true;
    }
}

extend it for your special case:

namespace App\Enum;

 class UploadFileStatusType extends EnumType
{
     const OPEN = 'open';
     const DONE = 'done';
     const ERROR = 'error';

     protected $name = self::class;

     protected $values = [
         self::OPEN => self::OPEN ,
         self::DONE => self::DONE,
         self::ERROR => self::ERROR,
     ];

}

add it to your dcotrine.yml config file:

doctrine:
    dbal:
        types:
            UploadFileStatusType: App\Enum\UploadFileStatusType

use it in your entity file as doctrine column doc type:

class MyEntity
{
    /**
     * @var string
     *
     * @ORM\Column(type="UploadFileStatusType")
     */
    protected $status;
}

And you will end up with a clean MySQL ENUM type for column status:

enum('open', 'done', 'error')