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I am working through part4 of Symfony2, and while updating the controller and helper class code i got the following error message

Undefined method 'getLatestBlogs'. The method name must start with either findBy or findOneBy!

before i had put some code in controller that i shifted to my helper class as taught by tutorial, which result in the above error message.

<?php // src/Blogger/BlogBundle/Repository/BlogRepository.php namespace Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository; use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository; /** * BlogRepository * This class was generated by the Doctrine ORM. Add your own custom * repository methods below. */ class BlogRepository extends EntityRepository { public function getLatestBlogs($limit = null) { $qb = $this->createQueryBuilder('b') ->select('b') ->addOrderBy('b.created', 'DESC'); if (false === is_null($limit)) $qb->setMaxResults($limit); return $qb->getQuery() ->getResult(); } }

And here is my controller file index Action Code:-

// src/Blogger/BlogBundle/Controller/PageController.php class PageController extends Controller { public function indexAction() { $em = $this->getDoctrine() ->getEntityManager(); $blogs = $em->getRepository('BloggerBlogBundle:Blog') ->getLatestBlogs(); return $this->render('BloggerBlogBundle:Page:index.html.twig', array( 'blogs' => $blogs )); } // .. }

I am attaching few lines from /Entity/Blog.php file. please see if they are correct as per your answer.

<?php // src/Blogger/BlogBundle/Entity/Blog.php namespace Blogger\BlogBundle\Entity; use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM; /** * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository\BlogRepository") * @ORM\Table(name="blog") * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks() * @ORM\Entity */ class Blog { /** * @ORM\Id * @ORM\Column(type="integer") * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO") * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks() */ protected $id; -- -- }

Where Am I doing wrong ?

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    You also had a newline between the annotation and the blog class, it should be directly below. Commented Feb 7, 2012 at 11:53
  • Deleting the *.orm.xml files work for me. Commented Nov 19, 2017 at 18:07
  • Its actually because of the Access modifiers in Repository if it is a private function you should start with findBy, findOneBy but as a good practice you should not make Repository functions public. and Im using Symfony 4.3 Commented Oct 15, 2019 at 12:02

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Make sure that you have modified your entity class: 

// src/Blogger/BlogBundle/Entity/Blog.php /** * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository\BlogRepository") * @ORM\Table(name="blog") * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks() */ class Blog { // .. }

the annotation @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository\BlogRepository") is required.

And don't forget to regenerate entities:

php app/console doctrine:generate:entities Blogger

UPDATE

Remove annotation @ORM\Entity. It overrides correct annotation @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository\BlogRepository")

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Thanks for ur response. I have updated the question where i added Entity/Blog.php code. but i am still getting the error
@Showket. Updated my answer. You have two @ORM\Entity annotations. The last one must be removed
@MolecularMan: This solution is not working for Symfony 2.1.4. BlogRepository file is not generating. Is it a bug. Do you have any advice !
@gowri, it may be a bug. You can create repository file manualy if it's the only problem.
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In my case adding proper annotation was insufficient.
Deleting Doctrine Cache by php app/console doctrine:cache:clear-metadata also not worked.

I generate my entities from database by commands

php app/console doctrine:mapping:import --force AcmeBlogBundle xml
php app/console doctrine:mapping:convert annotation ./src
php app/console doctrine:generate:entities AcmeBlogBundle

First command generate orm.xml file for each DB Table in my project. After DELETING all orm.xml files Annotations started work properly.

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Deleting the *.orm.xml files did the trick! This should be more known for people who generated their entities from an existing structure.
Deleting orm.xml all files did the job.
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If youre using yml as config files for your entities try adding this:

Blogger\BlogBundle\Entity\Blog: type: entity table: Blog repositoryClass: Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository\BlogRepository ...

and then as mentioned above:

php app/console doctrine:generate:entities Blogger
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The other solution is to delete all the orm.xml files added by generated entities. If you move the folder or delete, your mapping with repository will be operationnal.

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This worked for me. I had reverse engineered my entities from a MySQL database. Once I deleted the orm.xml files I was able to run the custom queries in the repository.
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In case you are using PHP-FPM then this issue might persist even after all the above solutions you have tried then use sudo service php5-fpm restart which did the trick for me.

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 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository\BlogRepository")

Try putting the repository class at the same directory next to the Entity class:

 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Blogger\BlogBundle\BlogRepository")
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For me it helped to restart my vm (Vagrant Box)

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I very much doubt that this is a answer to the question. If at all, this should be a comment. And you got enough reputation to comment!
@GhostCat for me it helped, so why shouldn't this be an answer? There is some issue with doctrine cache or something and this fixed it. I wish I would know more about this, but this solved my problem and I was searching for hours...
@Heisoka can you describe the source of the cache problem?
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In Symfony 3 you are probably missing the repository class in your orm.xml file.

repository-class="Bundle\Repository\MyRepository"

Example:

<doctrine-mapping> <entity name="Bundle\Entity\MyEntity" table="tablename" repository-class="Bundle\Repository\MyRepository"> <id name="id" type="integer" column="id"> <generator strategy="AUTO"/> </id> </entity> </doctrine-mapping>
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In my case, there was no method in that particular place. After placing/creating the according method the error was gone.

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