UUID / ULID Types

Description

Symfony has Doctrine types and generators for [Symfony UUID Component](Symfony UUID Component)

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;

  // …
  }