UUID / ULID Types

Description

Symfony has Doctrine types and generators for UUIDs and ULIDs

Syntax

// src/Entity/Product.php
namespace App\Entity;
 
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
 
/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="App\Repository\ProductRepository")
 */
class Product
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="uuid")
     */
    private $someProperty;
 
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="ulid")
     */
    private $anotherProperty;
 
    // ...
}

// there are generators for UUID V1 and V6 too
use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\IdGenerator\UuidV4Generator;
 
/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="App\Repository\ProductRepository")
 */
class Product
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\Column(type="uuid", unique=true)
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="CUSTOM")
     * @ORM\CustomIdGenerator(class=UuidV4Generator::class)
     */
    private $id;
 
    // ...
}
 
 
use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\IdGenerator\UlidGenerator;
 
/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="App\Repository\ProductRepository")
 */
class Product
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\Column(type="ulid", unique=true)
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="CUSTOM")
     * @ORM\CustomIdGenerator(class=UlidGenerator::class)
     */
    private $id;
 
    // ...
}