How to make doctrine and ZF2 form annotations work together

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I am trying to make Doctrine annotations work together with ZF2 Form annotations. My controller looks like this: ``` namespace Users\Controller; use Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController; use Zend\View\Model\ViewModel; //Doctrine Stuff use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Setup; use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager; use DoctrineModule\Stdlib\Hydrator\DoctrineObject as DoctrineHydrator; use DoctrineORMModule\Form\Annotation\AnnotationBuilder; class IndexController extends AbstractActionController { private $entityManager; public function getEntityManager() { if (!$this->entityManager) { $paths = array ( realpath ( dirname ( __FILE__ ) . '/../Entity' ) ); $isDevMode = true; // the connection configuration $dbParams = array ( 'driver' => 'pdo_mysql', 'user' => 'root', 'password' => 'my_password', 'dbname' => 'commapp' ); $config = Setup::createAnnotationMetadataConfiguration ( $paths, $isDevMode, null, null, false ); $this->entityManager = EntityManager::create ( $dbParams, $config ); } return $this-…

Accepted Answer

Solved it!

It's necessary to register autoload namespace, since Doctrine uses its own autoload mechanism. I needed to make use of AnnnotationRegistry and its registerAutoloadNamespace method. It accepts the namespace containing annotations (Zend\Form\Annotation) and the base directory of the root namespace (in my case C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\CommunicationApp\vendor\ZF2\library), as its parameters. More information here: Doctrine Annotations

My Entity now looks like this (and works with both Doctrine and Zend Form annotations):

```
namespace Users\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Zend\Form\Annotation;

use Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationRegistry;
$pathToZF2Library = __DIR__.'/../../../../../vendor/ZF2/library/';
AnnotationRegistry::registerAutoloadNamespace('Zend\Form\Annotation', $pathToZF2Library);

/** 
* @ORM\Entity
* @ORM\Table(name="users")
* @Annotation\Name("Users") 
*/
class User {

/** 
    * @ORM\Id @ORM\Column(type="integer")
    * @ORM\GeneratedValue
    * @Annotation\Type("Zend\Form\Element\Hidden")
    */
    protected $id;

/** 
    * @ORM\Column(type="string")
    * @Annotation\Type("Zend\Form\Element\Text")
    * @Annotation\Filter({"name":"StripTags"})
    * @Annotation\Filter({"name":"StringTrim"})
    * @Annotation\Validator({"name":"Alnum", "options": {"allowWhiteSpace":"true"}})
    * @Annotation\Validator({"name":"StringLength", "options": {"min":"2", "max":"25"}})
    * @Annotation\Options({"label":"Username: "})
    */
    protected $username;

/** 
    * @ORM\Column(type="string")
    * @Annotation\Type("Zend\Form\Element\Email")
    * @Annotation\Filter({"name":"StripTags"})
    * @Annotation\Filter({"name":"StringTrim"})
    * @Annotation\Validator({"name":"EmailAddress", "options": {"domain":"true"}})
    * @Annotation\Options({"label":"Email: "})
    */
    protected $email;

/** 
    * @ORM\Column(type="string")
    * @Annotation\Type("Zend\Form\Element\Password")
    * @Annotation\Filter({"name":"StripTags"})
    * @Annotation\Filter({"name":"StringTrim"})
    * @Annotation\Options({"label":"Password: "})
    */
    protected $password;

public function __construct() {
    }

public function setId($id) {
        $this->id = $id;
    }

public function getId() {
        return $this->id;
    }

public function setUsername($username) {
        $this->username = $username;
    }

public function getUsername() {
        return $this->username;
    }

public function setEmail($email) {
        $this->email = $email;
    }

public function getEmail() {
        return $this->email;
    }

public function setPassword($password) {
        $this->password = $password;
    }

public function getPassword() {
        return $this->password;
    }
}
```

How to make doctrine and ZF2 form annotations work together

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