Migrate Gedmo to KnpLabs

This post was updated at November 2022 with fresh know-how.
What is new?

Switched from deprecated --set option to rector.php config. Removed Rector upgrade set, as outdated and could cause troubles. Better handled individually per project.


With Symfony 5 upgrade, we need any working Doctrine behaviors.
Month later, we have KnpLabs\DoctrineBehaviors 2.0 with full Symfony 5 support.

If you used older Doctrine Behaviors, you're covered with Rector migration path.
But what if you're using old broken Gedmo?

I'll show you how you can migrate Gedmo to KnpLabs.

Pick behavior your want to migrate from Gedmo to KnpLabs:


If you use other Gedmo behavior that is not listed here, you might request or better add it to KnpLabs repository via pull-request. I assure you I'll provide stable maintenance support for KnpLabs package. It's not that hard with CI on steroids it has now.


1. Migrate Timestampable

Gedmo

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Gedmo\Timestampable\Traits\TimestampableEntity;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Meetup
{
    use TimestampableEntity;
}

↓

KnpLabs

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Model\Timestampable\TimestampableTrait;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Contract\Entity\TimestampableInterface;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Meetup implements TimestampableInterface
{
    use TimestampableTrait;
}

2. Migrate Sluggable

Gedmo

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Meetup
{
    /**
     * @Gedmo\Slug(fields={"name"})
     */
    private $slug;

    public function getSlug(): ?string
    {
        return $this->slug;
    }

    public function setSlug(?string $slug): void
    {
        $this->slug = $slug;
    }
}

↓

KnpLabs

use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;

// ...

/**
 * @Gedmo\Slug(fields={"name", "surname"})
 */
private $slug;

to


/**
 * @return string[]
 */
public function getSluggableFields(): array
{
    return ['name', 'surname'];
}

In full code:

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Model\Sluggable\SluggableTrait;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Contract\Entity\SluggableInterface;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Category implements SluggableInterface
{
    use SluggableTrait;

    /**
     * @return string[]
     */
    public function getSluggableFields(): array
    {
        return ['name'];
    }
}

3. Migrate Tree

This one will be tricky, because:

So if you're using anything but materialized path in Gedmo, you'll have to migrate PHP code (see below) + migrate your database data to materialized path (write your migration or Google one).


The PHP migration looks like this:

Gedmo

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection;
use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 * @Gedmo\Tree(type="nested")
 */
class Category
{
    /**
     * @Gedmo\TreeLeft
     * @ORM\Column(name="lft", type="integer")
     * @var int
     */
    private $lft;

    /**
     * @Gedmo\TreeRight
     * @ORM\Column(name="rgt", type="integer")
     * @var int
     */
    private $rgt;

    /**
     * @Gedmo\TreeLevel
     * @ORM\Column(name="lvl", type="integer")
     * @var int
     */
    private $lvl;

    /**
     * @Gedmo\TreeRoot
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Category")
     * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="tree_root", referencedColumnName="id", onDelete="CASCADE")
     * @var Category
     */
    private $root;

    /**
     * @Gedmo\TreeParent
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Category", inversedBy="children")
     * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="parent_id", referencedColumnName="id", onDelete="CASCADE")
     * @var Category
     */
    private $parent;

    /**
     * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Category", mappedBy="parent")
     * @var Category[]|Collection
     */
    private $children;

    public function getRoot(): self
    {
        return $this->root;
    }

    public function setParent(self $category): void
    {
        $this->parent = $category;
    }

    public function getParent(): self
    {
        return $this->parent;
    }
}

↓

KnpLabs

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Contract\Entity\TreeNodeInterface;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Model\Tree\TreeNodeTrait;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Category implements TreeNodeInterface
{
    use TreeNodeTrait;
}

4. Migrate Translatable

What about Performance?

I recall picking the behavior package for new Lekarna.cz 6 years ago. I was young, and a quantity was more than quality to me, so I was leaning towards Gedmo since it had more downloads.

But it's performance surprised me. Why? The translated item had 1:many dependency on translation table, so for every single item, it joined an X extra lines forever single translated column.

So even if you use Symfony 4 and everything works well for you, consider comparing performance with KnpLabs translations. Who knows, it might get your multi-lingual application 10x faster.


Gedmo

namespace App\Entity;

use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Gedmo\Translatable\Translatable;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Category implements Translatable
{
    /**
     * @Gedmo\Translatable
     * @ORM\Column(length=128)
     */
    private $title;

    /**
     * @Gedmo\Locale
     */
    private $locale;

    public function setTitle($title)
    {
        $this->title = $title;
    }

    public function getTitle()
    {
        return $this->title;
    }

    public function setTranslatableLocale($locale)
    {
        $this->locale = $locale;
    }
}

↓

KnpLabs

namespace App\Entity;

use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Model\Translatable\TranslatableTrait;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Contract\Entity\TranslatableInterface;

class Category implements TranslatableInterface
{
    use TranslatableTrait;
}

So, where is the title property we need to translate? Every translated property is in the new <entity>Translation class. This approach makes sure that the complexity of 1 item with dozens of translation stays 1:1 = it's super fast!

namespace App\Entity;

use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Contract\Entity\TranslationInterface;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Model\Translatable\TranslationTrait;

class CategoryTranslation implements TranslationInterface
{
    use TranslationTrait;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(length=128)
     */
    private $title;
}

In short:

Usage stays the same:

$category->getTitle();

That's all for the migration. Oh, you're still reading? Are you waiting for some easy solution to cover it all?

5. Migrate Blameable

Gedmo

namespace App\Entity;

use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Category
{
    /**
     * @Gedmo\Blameable(on="create")
     */
    private $createdBy;

    /**
     * @Gedmo\Blameable(on="update")
     */
    private $updatedBy;

    public function getCreatedBy()
    {
        return $this->createdBy;
    }

    public function getUpdatedBy()
    {
        return $this->updatedBy;
    }
}

↓

KnpLabs

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Contract\Entity\BlameableInterface;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Model\Blameable\BlameableTrait;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Category implements BlameableInterface
{
    use BlameableTrait;
}

6. Migrate Loggable

Gedmo

namespace App\Entity;

use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 * @Gedmo\Loggable
 */
class Category
{
    /**
     * @Gedmo\Versioned
     * @ORM\Column(name="title", type="string", length=8)
     */
    private $title;
}

↓

KnpLabs

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Model\Loggable\LoggableTrait;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Contract\Entity\LoggableInterface;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Category implements LoggableInterface
{
    use LoggableTrait;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(name="title", type="string", length=8)
     */
    private $title;
}

7. Migrate SoftDeletable

Gedmo

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;

/**
 * @Gedmo\SoftDeleteable(fieldName="deletedAt", timeAware=false, hardDelete=true)
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Category
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(name="deletedAt", type="datetime", nullable=true)
     */
    private $deletedAt;

    public function getDeletedAt()
    {
        return $this->deletedAt;
    }

    public function setDeletedAt($deletedAt)
    {
        $this->deletedAt = $deletedAt;
    }
}

↓

KnpLabs

namespace App\Entity;

use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Contract\Entity\SoftDeletableInterface;
use Knp\DoctrineBehaviors\Model\SoftDeletable\SoftDeletableTrait;

class Category implements SoftDeletableInterface
{
    use SoftDeletableTrait;
}

Happy coding!