[DCOM-175] Proxies return private properties in __sleep, which is not supported by PHP.

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:06:43 +0000

__sleep should not return private parent property names (see http://php.net/__sleep) this raises notices, and also results in the value of the property being 'N' (null) instead of keeping its value.

I am unfortunately stuck having to serialize proxies in my revision tracking, as doctrine seems to be currently ignoring the fetch="EAGER" I set on the related properties.

Proxies should use the Serializable interface, and not __sleep, or not return parent property names which are private, it serves no purpose, and is not supported by PHP itself anyway.

Also, if you keep __sleep, but do not return the parent property names, then it will only include the items you return, so it would be better to simply drop the __sleep method, I cannot actually see any useful purpose it serves.

[DCOM-189] Doctrine Proxies may conflict with interfaced constructors

Fri, 3 May 2013 13:05:24 +0000

The Doctrine ProxyGenerator generates for a proxy a constructor. The documentation of Doctrine states that the constructor is never called. For a project, I created a group of entities with a interfaced constructor in order to enforce a common interface. This results in a incompatible proxy and so a fatal error.

[DCOM-165] Entities seems not be recognized by AnnotationDriver

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:07:12 +0000

Problem:
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"$em->getMetadataFactory()->getAllMetadata()"
Will result in an empty array. The entitiy manager is correctly configured and the entities files are loaded (echo's in the files will be displayed).

Debug steps:
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Looking in the code for the problem I created the following debug points first:

file AnnotationDriver.php method getAllClassNames()
after the line: "$includedFiles[] = $sourceFile;"
add: "echo $sourceFile . ' is loaded' . PHP_EOL;"

file AnnotationDriver.php method getAllClassNames()
after the line: "$sourceFile = $rc->getFileName();"
add: "echo $className . ' is loaded from: ' . $sourceFile . ' in the includedFiles array? ' . (in_array($sourceFile, $includedFiles) ? 'YES' : 'not found ') . PHP_EOL;"

the following output will be displayed:
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f:\workspace\nl.markei.posto-2.3\lib\relaties\Contact.php is loaded
...
nl\markei\posto\relaties\Contact is loaded from: F:\workspace\nl.markei.posto-2.3\lib\relaties\Contact.php in the includedFiles array? not found

It seems that Doctrine includes the file from f: but ReflectionClass say it is loaded from F:. The in_array() will fail and Doctrine will not recognized the entity.

But this is not the full problem. I created a new debug point:

file AnnotationDriver.php method getAllClassNames()
after the line: "foreach ($this->_paths as $path) {"
add: "echo 'path: ' . $path . ' after realpath: ' . realpath($path) . PHP_EOL;"

This will result in the following output:
"path: F:\domains\markei.nl\lib\nl.markei.posto\ after realpath: f:\workspace\nl.markei.posto-2.3\lib"

So the conversion of the F: to f: is done by realpath; its look like

A simple fix should be in AnnotationDriver.php / getAllClassNames()
replace: "$sourceFile = $rc->getFileName();"
by: "$sourceFile = realpath($rc->getFileName());"

After I did that, the problem still exists. So I add to echo's (one with realpath and one without at the part of the code). And both echo's result in a path starting with "F:".

So my first reaction was freaky!

After some frustrating hours I found the problem in the symlink I used.
"F:\domains\markei.nl\lib\nl.markei.posto" was a symlink to "f:\workspace\nl.markei.posto-2.3\lib" and realpath will not convert the driver char in the target of the symlink for some freaky reason. After changing the symlink target to "F:\workspace...." everything works fine.

Summary:
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realpath results are not consistent on Windows. This will resulting in problems under Windows.

Possible solutions:
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Saying "this is a PHP bug".
It is possible that there are more case sensitive problems hidding here on Windows. Maybe it is better to use (for Windows only!) a case insensitive in_array-alternative in AnnotationDriver.php getAllClassNames() (or convert all paths for to lowercase for Windows)

Doctrine Project

[DCOM-175] Proxies return private properties in __sleep, which is not supported by PHP.

[DCOM-189] Doctrine Proxies may conflict with interfaced constructors

[DCOM-165] Entities seems not be recognized by AnnotationDriver