[Solved] Support for custom field type

Question

Currently ORMDesigner gives us a pre-defined enumeration for Field Type. We have a use case in our Doctrine 2 project which calls for encrypting field contents, and the solution calls for a field type of "encrypted_string" rather than "string". Currently our only choice is to manually manage this after we've exported from ORMD.

Answer 1

Hi Jeremiah, if I understand correctly, you need to extend list of field data types like "string",'integer","double",.. ?

If so, it's pretty simple to add new data type. Only thing you need to do is to add new <data-type> element to Doctrine2 configuration file (or your custom cfg file):

<data-types>
   ...
  <data-type name="encrypted_string"/>
</data-types>

• Check this link for configuration file XML reference: https://help.skipper18.com/expert-usage/reference-manual/xml-reference/

• and this link for instructions how to create your own cfg file, so you will not lose your changes on the next ORMD update: https://help.skipper18.com/expert-usage/customization/configuration-files/

Comments

Perfect, I just added a file to the repo next to the .ormdes file that contains this

<ormd2-configuration xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 <orm-configuration name="Doctrine2">
  <data-types>
   <data-type name="encrypted_string"/>
  </data-types>
 </orm-configuration>
</ormd2-configuration>

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thanks. links fixed