Recommended way to add a new entity to sylius core bundle? - entity-framework

Question

Currently using:
base install of sylius-standard, for an ecommerce website.
Here is what I would like to accomplish :
Basically we know there is an User Entity which resides in
vendor/sylius/sylius/src/Sylius/Component/Core/Model/User.php
This Entity is actually extending the FOS\UserBundle\Model\User and it also has a linked UserInterface which is implementing FOS\UserBundle\Model\UserInterface.
My goal is to create another entity UserData which can be linked via the Doctrine OneToMany field relation to the above sylius User Entity which is basically the table sylius_user.
So effectively User Entity linked to UserData Entity via oneToMany ( For each user there can be multiple UserData entity instances.)
Sylius documentation (http://sylius.readthedocs.org) does not have anything related to adding an entity - If I am mistaken, please guide me to the correct links.
I have read overriding models at - > sylius models override also have gone through another sort of related question on stackoverflow How to create a new model with Sylius via SyliusResourceBundle but it is not clear as he is using the SyliusResourceBundle while I want to extend the SyliusCoreBundle (not sure if we can extend it in the first place or not)
How do I achieve this in the sylius framework ?

Answer 1

I solved the problems by reading segregated posts, so putting in here the solution for the community (please let me know if this is not the recommended way and the correct way if not):
My goal was to create a oneToMany doctrine relationship between
Sylius\Component\Core\Model\User
And
Acme\Bundle\Entity\UserData
which I had created. Basically for every user there could be multiple userdata instances pointing back to that user.
To do this, at first I followed the docs at sylius documentation
to override the sylius user class which is infact an extended class of fosuserbundle.
At some stage I kept getting the error [Doctrine\DBAL\Schema\SchemaException]
The table with name 'astrohealing_dev.sylius_user' already exists.
Based on Winzou's suggestion : To fix this error I changed the user class locations in sylius.yml (Sylius/Bundle/CoreBundle/Resources/config/app/sylius.yml) which is part of the core bundle and declared my own class as the user model like this :
This resolved the sylius_user table exists error
But then I got another error :
[Symfony\Component\Config\Definition\Exception\ForbiddenOverwriteException]
Configuration path "sylius_core.driver" cannot be overwritten. You have to define all options for this path, and any of its sub
-paths in one configuration section.
Next I commented out drive : doctrine/orm line for the relevant entry in
app/config/config.yml
sylius_core:
# driver: doctrine/orm
classes:
user:
model: Acme\Bundle\Entity\User
sylius_resource:
resources:
sylius.userdata:
driver: doctrine/orm
classes:
model: Acme\Bundle\Entity\UserData
The above few lines also show :
The override for sylius_core with my new User class
The new resource - which is bascially just the userdata class
Now for the Doctrine Mapping (User.orm.xml):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<doctrine-mapping xmlns="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping
http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping.xsd">
<entity name="Acme\Bundle\Entity\User" table="sylius_user">
<one-to-many
field="userdata"
target-entity="Acme\Bundle\Entity\UserData"
mapped-by="userid" />
</entity>
</doctrine-mapping>
And the mapping for UserData (UserData.orm.xml)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<doctrine-mapping xmlns="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping
http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping.xsd">
<entity name="Acme\Bundle\Entity\UserData" table="sylius_userdata">
<id name="id" type="integer">
<generator strategy="AUTO" />
</id>
<many-to-one
field="userid"
target-entity="Acme\Bundle\Entity\User"
inversed-by="userdata"
join-column="userid">
<join-column name="user_id" referenced-column-name="id" nullable="false" />
</many-to-one>
<field name="name" type="string" length="150" />
<field name="datetime" type="datetime" />
</entity>
</doctrine-mapping>