When importing fixtures some times the fixtures will be loaded in the wrong order causing broken foreign key relations

Hi

I recently encountered a problem when importing fixtures. I was ending up with invalid foreign key constraints due to the fact that the fixtures were importing in the wrong order. I tracked down the problem and figured out that the method Doctrine_Connection_UnitOfWork::buildFlushTree, while a truly impressive piece of sorting logic still some times still gets the order of the classes wrong in its end result.

I realized that all it needed though was a second shot at reordering the list – in other words it needed to exhaustively try to order the list until it found that everything was in the right order.

I put in a for loop in this method that will keep running until no order changes occurred or until a max number of attempts have been reached. The max number of attempts I added as a property of Doctrine_Connection called: maxBuildFlushTreeOrderAttempts.

This has solved my problem. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a common issue.

I will post my patch into this thread.

Hope all is well.

Will Ferrer