UPGRADE.md

UPGRADE to 3.0

• The automatic loading of fixtures in a directory (e.g. AppBundle\DataFixtures\ORM) was removed. Instead, register your fixture classes as services and tag them with doctrine.fixture.orm, like this:

# src/AppBundle/Resources/config/dataFixture.yml
services:
  _defaults:
    tags: ['doctrine.fixture.orm']
    autowire: true # if you need dependency injection, see next bullet point

  AppBundle\DataFixtures\ORM\:
    resource: '../../DataFixtures/ORM/*'

This will happen automatically if you're using the Symfony 3.3 or higher default service configuration and your fixture classes extend the normal Doctrine\Bundle\FixturesBundle\Fixture class, or implement the new Doctrine\Bundle\FixturesBundle\ORMFixtureInterface.

• The base Fixture class no longer implements ContainerAwareInterface and so no longer have a $this->container property. You can manually implement this interface. Or, a better idea is to update your fixtures to use dependency injection:

class MyFixture extends Fixture
{
+     private $someService;

+     public function __construct(SomeService $someService)
+     {
+         $this->someService = $someService;
+     }

    public function load(ObjectManager $manager)
    {
-         $this->container->get('some_service')->someMethod();
+         $this->someService->someMethod();
    }
}

• The base Fixture class no longer implements DependentFixtureInterface. If you want to have a getDependencies() method, be sure to implement this interface explicitly:

+ use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\DependentFixtureInterface;

- class MyFixture extends Fixture
+ class MyFixture extends Fixture implements DependentFixtureInterface