Injecting SecurityContext into a Listener prePersist or preUpdate in Symfony2 to get User in a createdBy or updatedBy Causes Circular Reference Error

Question

I setup a listener class where i\'ll set the ownerid column on any doctrine prePersist. My services.yml file looks like this ...

services:
my.listener:
             


        

Answer 1

I use the doctrine config files to set preUpdate or prePersist methods:

Project\MainBundle\Entity\YourEntity:
    type: entity
    table: yourentities
    repositoryClass: Project\MainBundle\Repository\YourEntitytRepository
    fields:
        id:
            type: integer
            id: true
            generator:
                strategy: AUTO

    lifecycleCallbacks:
        prePersist: [methodNameHere]
        preUpdate: [anotherMethodHere]

And the methods are declared in the entity, this way you don't need a listener and if you need a more general method you can make a BaseEntity to keep that method and extend the other entites from that. Hope it helps!