Timestampable Bundle

Symfony Bundle - AndanteProject

A Symfony Bundle to handle entities createdAt and updatedAt dates with Doctrine. 🕰

Requirements

Symfony 4.x-7.x and PHP 8.2.

Install

Via Composer:

$ composer require andanteproject/timestampable-bundle

Features

• No configuration required to be ready to go but fully customizabile;
• createdAt and updatedAt properties are ?\DateTimeImmutable;
• Uses Symfony Clock;
• Does not override your createdAt and updatedAt values when you set them explicitly;
• No annotation/attributes required;
• Works like magic ✨.

Basic usage

After install, make sure you have the bundle registered in your symfony bundles list (config/bundles.php):

return [
    /// bundles...
    Andante\TimestampableBundle\AndanteTimestampableBundle::class => ['all' => true],
    /// bundles...
];

This should have been done automagically if you are using Symfony Flex. Otherwise, just register it by yourself.

Let's suppose we have a App\Entity\Article doctrine entity we want to track created and update dates. All you have to do is to implement Andante\TimestampableBundle\Timestampable\TimestampableInterface and use Andante\TimestampableBundle\Timestampable\TimestampableTrait trait.

<?php

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Andante\TimestampableBundle\Timestampable\TimestampableInterface;
use Andante\TimestampableBundle\Timestampable\TimestampableTrait;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity()
 */
class Article implements TimestampableInterface // <-- implement this
{
    use TimestampableTrait; // <-- add this

    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     */
    private ?int $id = null;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string")
     */
    private string $title;
    
    public function __construct(string $title)
    {
        $this->title = $title;
    }
    
    // ...
    // Some others beautiful properties and methods ...
    // ...
}

Make sure to update you database schema following your doctrine workflow (bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force if you are a badass devil guy or with a migration if you choosed the be a better developer!).

You shoud see a new columns named created_at and updated_at (can i change this?) or something similar based on your doctrine naming strategy.

Congrats! You're done! 🎉

Remember that TimestampableInterface and TimestampableTrait are shortcut to use CreatedAtTimestampableInterface+CreatedAtTimestampableTrait and UpdatedAtTimestampableInterface+UpdatedAtTimestampableTrait at the same time! If you need to track only create date or update date you can use these more specific interfaces!

To keep track of	Implement interface	Use this Trait
Create date	Andante\TimestampableBundle\Timestampable\CreatedAtTimestampableInterface	Andante\TimestampableBundle\Timestampable\CreatedAtTimestampableTrait
Update date	Andante\TimestampableBundle\Timestampable\UpdatedAtTimestampableInterface	Andante\TimestampableBundle\Timestampable\UpdatedAtTimestampableTrait
Both create and update dates	Andante\TimestampableBundle\Timestampable\TimestampableInterface	Andante\TimestampableBundle\Timestampable\TimestampableTrait

Usage with no trait

<?php

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Andante\TimestampableBundle\Timestampable\TimestampableInterface;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity()
 */
class Article implements TimestampableInterface // <-- implement this
{
    // No trait needed
    
    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     */
    private ?int $id = null;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string")
     */
    private string $title;
    
    // DO NOT use ORM annotations to map these properties. See bundle configuration section for more info 
    private ?\DateTimeImmutable $createdAt = null; 
    private ?\DateTimeImmutable $updatedAt = null; 
    
    public function __construct(string $title)
    {
        $this->title = $title;
    }
    
    public function setCreatedAt(\DateTimeImmutable $dateTime): void
    {
        $this->createdAt = $dateTime;
    }

    public function getCreatedAt(): ?\DateTimeImmutable
    {
        return $this->createdAt;
    }
    
    public function setUpdatedAt(\DateTimeImmutable $dateTime): void
    {
        $this->updatedAt = $dateTime;
    }

    public function getUpdatedAt(): ?\DateTimeImmutable
    {
        return $this->updatedAt;
    }
}

This allows you to, for instance, to have a different name for your properties (E.g. created instead of createdAt and updated instead of updatedAt). But you will need to explicit this in bundle configuration.

Configuration (completely optional)

This bundle is build thinking how to save you time and follow best practices as close as possible.

This means you can even ignore to have a andante_timestampable.yml config file in your application.

However, for whatever reason (legacy code?), use the bundle configuration to change most of the behaviors as your needs.

andante_timestampable:
  default:
    created_at_property_name: createdAt # default: createdAt
                                        # The property to be used by default as createdAt date inside entities 
                                        # implementing CreatedAtTimestampableInterface or TimestampableInterface
    updated_at_property_name: updatedAt # default: updatedAt
                                        # The property to be used by default as updatedAt date inside entities 
                                        # implementing UpdatedAtTimestampableInterface or TimestampableInterface

    created_at_column_name: created_at # default: null
                                       # Column name to be used on database for create date. 
                                       # If set to NULL will use your default doctrine naming strategy
    updated_at_column_name: updated_at # default: null
                                       # Column name to be used on database for update date. 
                                       # If set to NULL will use your default doctrine naming strategy
  entity: # You can use per-entity configuration to override default config
    Andante\TimestampableBundle\Tests\Fixtures\Entity\Organization:
      created_at_property_name: createdAt
    Andante\TimestampableBundle\Tests\Fixtures\Entity\Address:
      created_at_property_name: created
      updated_at_property_name: updated
      created_at_column_name: created_date
      updated_at_column_name: updated_date

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