“Class XXX is not a valid entity or mapped super class” after moving the class in the filesystem

Question

I had an entity class in Aib\\PlatformBundle\\Entity\\User.php

I had no problems trying to create its form class through

php app/ console doc

Answer 1

I solved this by passing false as the second parameter to Doctrine\ORM\Configuration::newDefaultAnnotationDriver.

It took me a while of digging through Google and source code.

My case was sort of special since I was using a mapping pointing to another directory unrelated to the Symfony installation as I also had to use legacy code.

I had refactored legacy entities and they stopped working. They used to use @Annotation instead of @ORM\Annotation, so after refactoring it simply failed to read the metadata. By not using a simple annotation reader, everything seems to be okayish.