Question

As I’ve already found out, Doctrine2 “does not support to set the default values in columns through the “DEFAULT” keyword in SQL. … you can just use your class properties as default values“.

class Product
{

// ...

    /**
     * @var string $name
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="name", type="string", length=255)
     */
    private $name = "";

    /**
     * @var string $sale
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="sale", type="boolean")
     */
    private $sale = false;

But even when I do this, the generated CRUD forms still require me to fill out all forms. In case of boolean attributes this even means I can only set it to true (i.e. 1).

Am I doing something wrong?

(I know I can turn the validation off but I’d like a solution to the problem instead of just bypassing it)

Answer 1

Your boolean value need to have nullable set as true:

/**
 * @var string $sale
 *
 * @ORM\Column(name="sale", type="boolean", nullable=true)
 */
private $sale = false;