Symfony 4 and Doctrine, how to generate repository automatically after mapping?

Question

All the tutorials I am finding have the repository created automatically using make:entity when creating new tables

but I have been importing from an ex

Answer 1

SOLUTION 1

You can simply run

php bin\console make:entity --regenerate

This will prompt and ask for:

Enter a class or namespace to regenerate [App\Entity]:

Just press Enter or specify the location of your entity folder, and it will create missing getters/setters & Repositories.

---> WARNING:
If it does not create the repositories make sure you have the following annotation in your entities :

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="App\Repository\MyClassRepository")
 */
class MyClass
{

}

SOLUTION 2

The SymfonyMakerBundle allows you to create your own makers. So you could make a new one called make:repositories that will generate a repository for each entity found in the /Entity folder.

To do that, create a class (MakeRepositories) that extends AbstractMaker in your src/Maker/ directory. (documentation: https://symfony.com/doc/current/bundles/SymfonyMakerBundle/index.html#creating-your-own-makers)

Use the core maker make:entity to help you create your new command (since it contains the code to generate a repository) : https://github.com/symfony/maker-bundle/blob/master/src/Maker/MakeEntity.php