Field type and overrides

Configuration of data types

There is no configuration required for type of your entities attributes. Anyway, the application is going to try to find type description in your assert or doctrine annotations.

• Assert documentation

• Doctrine annotations

Inheritance of types

The application is looking for the following order to extract field type informations.

Priority	Description
1 (most important)	Yaml configuration for Form Section or List Section
2	Yaml configuration for Attributes section
3	Assert annotations
4 (last)	Doctrine annotations

tellaw_sunshine_admin:
  entities:
      partner :
           configuration:
               id: id
               class: AppBundle\Entity\Partner

           attributes:
               id:
                  label: Id
                  type : integer

               name:
                  label: Nom
                  type : string
                  sortable : true

           form:
              fields:
                    name: ~

           list:
              fields:
                  id :
                      label: Identifiant
                  name :
                      label: Nom de société

              filters:
                  name :
                      label: filter-label

              search:
                  name :
                      label: search-label

Using this configuration, Sunshine will decide that the field 'name' is a String by reading the 'attributes' section of YAML

If a value was configured in the sections 'form' or 'list', sunshine would use them istead of the attributes value in the correct context.

If you used a custom formType, it is your responsability to handle the configuration override.

Doctrine Annotation

    /**
     * @var \DateTime $validityStartDate
     * @ORM\Column(type="datetime", nullable=false)
     */
    private $validityStartDate;

Using this doctrine annotation, Sunshine will consider this field as a datetime field.

Assert Annotation

    /**
     * @var string $name
     * @ORM\Column(type="string", nullable=false)
     * @Assert\Length(
     *      min = 2,
     *      max = 50,
     *      minMessage = "Your first name must be at least {{ limit }} characters long",
     *      maxMessage = "Your first name cannot be longer than {{ limit }} characters"
     *
     * @Assert\Type(
     *     type="string",
     *     message="The value {{ value }} is not a valid {{ type }}."
     * )
     * @Assert\NotNull()
     */
    private $name;

Using this configuration, Sunshine will use the Asset\Type configuration instead of Doctrine due to priority.