Doctrine Migrations, problems using custom doctrine types

doctrine-orm, migration, symfony

Solution

I answer my own question, it seems the problem is DoctrineMigrations also needs a mapping for the custom type. So the config.yml should look like this:

# Doctrine Configuration
doctrine:
    dbal:
        driver:   %database_driver%
        host:     %database_host%
        port:     %database_port%
        dbname:   %database_name%
        user:     %database_user%
        password: %database_password%
        charset:  UTF8
        types:
          point: App\EngineBundle\DoctrineExtensions\PointType 
        mapping_types:
          point: point

Problem

I'm building a application using Symfony2 + Doctrine2. My application needs to store geospatial data, so I wrote the proper doctrine extensions. All is working pretty good and the app have been running in a production enviroment for a long time. Now I have to add some new features and I need to update the database without deleting all the data. I thougth about using the DoctrineMigrationBundle but when I run: ``` $ php app/console doctrine:migrations:status ``` I got this error: ``` [Doctrine\DBAL\DBALException] Unknown database type point requested, Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms\MySqlPlatform may not support it. ``` This is the relevant section of my config.yml: ``` # Doctrine Configuration doctrine: dbal: driver: %database_driver% host: %database_host% port: %database_port% dbname: %database_name% user: %database_user% password: %database_password% charset: UTF8 types: point: App\EngineBundle\DoctrineExtensions\PointType ``` The custom type 'point' has been mapped, so what am I doing wrong?

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