Symfony sonata admin bundle without entity

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Is there the way to use sonata admin bundle without entity - so without doctrine?

I need to list files on some directory, this list is not stored in database.

The first approach I tried was to declare my own Model manager, but there are some places which require doctrine queries etc.

I know, that there is document manager for mongo and sonata mongo admin, but in my case it's not so helpful.

Any ideas?

Is listing the files all that you need to do? If so, you shouldn't need to create a Sonata Admin class to do so. Just use any of the number of available methods in PHP for interacting with directories. — dyelawn, Jan 04 '14 at 22:40
@dyelawn nope, I need to have ability of sorting and filtering results — falinsky, Jan 06 '14 at 09:57
I was asking the same question on SO, the answer was : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38221948/how-to-create-a-custom-action-not-related-to-entity-from-sonata-admin — Tsounabe, Oct 27 '16 at 17:11
You can look at this link : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15966575/sonataadminbundle-display-non-crud-statistics/22507027 — Tsounabe, Oct 27 '16 at 17:22

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 04 '14 at 00:08

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In the documentation found here: http://sonata-project.org/bundles/admin/master/doc/reference/getting_started.html

It looks like in the create an admin section that #2 requires a model:

The Admin service’s code (defaults to the service’s name)

The model which this Admin class maps (required)

The controller that will handle the administration actions (defaults to SonataAdminBundle:CRUDController)

The sample shows the service setup with manager_type as an ORM:

# Acme/DemoBundle/Resources/config/admin.yml
services:
    sonata.admin.post:
        class: Acme\DemoBundle\Admin\PostAdmin
        tags:
            - { name: sonata.admin, manager_type: orm, group: "Content", label: "Post" }
        arguments:
            - ~
            - Acme\DemoBundle\Entity\Post
            - ~
        calls:
            - [ setTranslationDomain, [AcmeDemoBundle]]

Now in general symfony doesn't set hard requirements on what a model is. It can be doctrine or something custom you build. In the case of services it is just an object. I don't see anywhere in the documentation says that you need a database.

answered Jan 04 '14 at 00:08

Shawn

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so do you know any good documentations about creating custom models? – falinsky Jan 06 '14 at 10:00
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@falinsky Symfony is not a MVC model in the traditional sense. As long as you have a class object you can do anything with it. This symfony article explains how to setup a class as a service. This may get you in the right direction, as it explains a bit about what I am saying. http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/service_container.html – Shawn Jan 06 '14 at 21:52
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you just explain basical things... they are not helpful for my situation. you'd understand that we talk about sonata admin bundle, not just symfony in general – falinsky Jan 06 '14 at 23:36
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Well I can't write the code for you here as your case is very specific and would take a good bit of development, I have given you the info and tools to do what you need. Basically, if you have a code class that has functionality it can be registered as a service. So register the class, this service in your case would be your "model". The link I gave you explains a mailer class being used as a service. This is very similar to how that bundle works, as it shows you a controller and the service and how to use them in an example. – Shawn Jan 06 '14 at 23:41
did you find a workaround ? I am trying to use objects in admin class that are coming from custom query and custom hydratation. When i define the entity class in the admin service, as it's not an orm class, i can't it. It throws an error. (getMetadata) – Rmannn Sep 16 '14 at 14:02

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