Symfony2 ORM prePersist Not Working

Question

prePersist() method of my entity is not being invoked.

Answer 1

I have the same problem. According to docs you must enable lifecycle callbacks http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/doctrine.html

/**
 * @ORM\Entity()
 * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks()
 */
class Product
{
    // ...
}

Answer 2

I had the same issue, it was because my method was private, so make sure the method with @ORM\PrePersist() annotation is public.

Answer 3

@ORM\PrePersist is missing parenthesis, it should be @ORM\PrePersist()

Answer 4

One issue is this function.

/**
 * Set active
 *
 * @ORM\PrePersist
 * @param boolean $active
 * @return Users
 */
public function setActive($active)
{
    $this->active = $active;

    return $this;
}

You can't pass arguments to functions when using @PrePersist.

Also this function

/**
* @ORM\PrePersist
* @ORM\PreUpdate
*/
public function prePersist(){

  $this->active = 0;
  $this->created = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
  $this->modified = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

}

fails because you are assigning a string value to DateTime fields. Try this:

/**
 * @ORM\PrePersist
 * @ORM\PreUpdate
 */
public function prePersist()
{

  $this->active = false;
  $this->created = new \DateTime();
  $this->modified = new \DateTime();

}

Answer 5

I solved this issue cleaning the cache!

php bin/console cache:clear