Question

In Symfony2, when I run the command bin/vendors install I get the following message:

?? src/Symfony/Component/Validator/Constraints/Alphanumeric.php
?? src/Symfony/Component/Validator/Constraints/AlphanumericValidator.php
?? src/Symfony/Component/Validator/Constraints/GreaterThan.php
?? src/Symfony/Component/Validator/Constraints/GreaterThanValidator.php
"symfony" has local modifications. Please revert or commit/push them before running this command again.

The files listed, are custom constraint validators created by me following the cookbook entry here.

Is there a way to update the deps files ignoring the changes I made? My goal is to install a new bundle while keeping the constraint validator files created by me.

UPDATE: Peter solution was right, the only thing left is to “use” the correct namespace inside the entity like this:

(The code has words in Spanish and I will assume again that I’m in the DemoBundle just for consistency)

namespace Acme\DemoBundle\Entity;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
use Acme\DemoBundle\Component\Validator\Constraints as CustomAssert;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Employee
{
    //...

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=20)
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     * @CustomAssert\Alphanumeric()
     */
    protected $alfanum;

    //...
}

Answer 1

No, don’t do this. Custom validators (or custom anything) you write should be a part of your namespace, not Symfony’s. And they certainly shouldn’t be vendors directory at all (unless you write your own vendor). This is the whole point of namespacing and vendor management – to avoid collisions!

So, you need to move your custom validators to your application’s source. Using the AcmeDemoBundle as an example…

Create directories for the following path

src/Acme/DemoBundle/Component/Validator/Constraints

And then move your custom validators into this folder. Then update the namespace for each validator class accordingly

namespace Acme\DemoBundle\Component\Validator\Constraints

Cheers