The method name must start with either findBy or findOneBy. Undefined method Symfony?

Question

I am working through part4 of Symfony2, and while updating the controller and helper class code i got the following error message

Undefined method 'getLatestBlogs'. The method name must start with either
findBy or findOneBy!

before i had put some code in controller that i shifted to my helper class as taught by tutorial, which result in the above error message.

<?php
// src/Blogger/BlogBundle/Repository/BlogRepository.php
namespace Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository;
use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;

/**
 * BlogRepository
 * This class was generated by the Doctrine ORM. Add your own custom
 * repository methods below.
*/
class BlogRepository extends EntityRepository
{
 public function getLatestBlogs($limit = null)
 {
    $qb = $this->createQueryBuilder('b')
               ->select('b')
               ->addOrderBy('b.created', 'DESC');

    if (false === is_null($limit))
        $qb->setMaxResults($limit);

    return $qb->getQuery()
              ->getResult();
  } 
}

And here is my controller file index Action Code:-

// src/Blogger/BlogBundle/Controller/PageController.php
class PageController extends Controller
{
  public function indexAction()
  {
    $em = $this->getDoctrine()
               ->getEntityManager();

    $blogs = $em->getRepository('BloggerBlogBundle:Blog')
                ->getLatestBlogs();

    return $this->render('BloggerBlogBundle:Page:index.html.twig', array(
        'blogs' => $blogs
    ));
    }

    // ..
}

I am attaching few lines from /Entity/Blog.php file. please see if they are correct as per your answer.

<?php
// src/Blogger/BlogBundle/Entity/Blog.php

namespace Blogger\BlogBundle\Entity;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository\BlogRepository")
 * @ORM\Table(name="blog")
 * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks()
 * @ORM\Entity
 */

class Blog
 {
  /**
   * @ORM\Id
   * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
   * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
   * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks()
  */
  protected $id;
  --
  --
 }

Where Am I doing wrong ?

You also had a newline between the annotation and the blog class, it should be directly below. — solarc, Feb 07 '12 at 11:53
Its actually because of the **Access modifiers** in Repository if it is a private function you should start with `findBy, findOneBy` but as a good practice you **should not** make Repository functions public. _and Im using Symfony 4.3_ — Ahamed Rasheed, Oct 15 '19 at 12:02

Molecular Man · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-07T08:39:26.490

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Make sure that you have modified your entity class:

// src/Blogger/BlogBundle/Entity/Blog.php
/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository\BlogRepository")
 * @ORM\Table(name="blog")
 * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks()
 */
class Blog
{
    // ..
}

the annotation @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository\BlogRepository") is required.

And don't forget to regenerate entities:

php app/console doctrine:generate:entities Blogger

UPDATE

Remove annotation @ORM\Entity. It overrides correct annotation @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository\BlogRepository")

edited Feb 07 '12 at 08:39

answered Feb 07 '12 at 08:26

Molecular Man

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Thanks for ur response. I have updated the question where i added Entity/Blog.php code. but i am still getting the error – ScoRpion Feb 07 '12 at 08:35
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@Showket. Updated my answer. You have two `@ORM\Entity` annotations. The last one must be removed – Molecular Man Feb 07 '12 at 08:41
@MolecularMan: This solution is not working for Symfony 2.1.4. BlogRepository file is not generating. Is it a [bug](https://github.com/doctrine/DoctrineBundle/issues/124). Do you have any advice ! – Gowri Dec 13 '12 at 06:48
@gowri, it may be a bug. You can create repository file manualy if it's the only problem. – Molecular Man Dec 13 '12 at 07:55

user4011534 · Answer 2 · 2014-09-06T19:15:47.023

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In my case adding proper annotation was insufficient.
Deleting Doctrine Cache by php app/console doctrine:cache:clear-metadata also not worked.

I generate my entities from database by commands

php app/console doctrine:mapping:import --force AcmeBlogBundle xml
php app/console doctrine:mapping:convert annotation ./src
php app/console doctrine:generate:entities AcmeBlogBundle

First command generate orm.xml file for each DB Table in my project. After DELETING all orm.xml files Annotations started work properly.

edited Sep 06 '14 at 19:15

answered Sep 05 '14 at 11:14

user4011534

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Deleting the *.orm.xml files did the trick! This should be more known for people who generated their entities from an existing structure. – Lost F. Mar 24 '16 at 23:20
Deleting orm.xml all files did the job. – Muhammad Shahzad Jun 12 '17 at 14:10

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 20 '14 at 20:08

If youre using yml as config files for your entities try adding this:

Blogger\BlogBundle\Entity\Blog:
    type: entity
    table: Blog
    repositoryClass: Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository\BlogRepository
    ...

and then as mentioned above:

php app/console doctrine:generate:entities Blogger

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 22 '17 at 11:57

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The other solution is to delete all the orm.xml files added by generated entities. If you move the folder or delete, your mapping with repository will be operationnal.

answered Mar 22 '17 at 11:57

Benjamin Petit

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This worked for me. I had reverse engineered my entities from a MySQL database. Once I deleted the orm.xml files I was able to run the custom queries in the repository. – PrestonDocks Mar 22 '17 at 20:33

Hbksagar · Answer 5 · 2015-06-10T11:26:18.220

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In case you are using PHP-FPM then this issue might persist even after all the above solutions you have tried then use sudo service php5-fpm restart which did the trick for me.

edited Jun 10 '15 at 11:26

answered Jun 10 '15 at 06:14

Hbksagar

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 30 '15 at 12:35

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 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Blogger\BlogBundle\Repository\BlogRepository")

Try putting the repository class at the same directory next to the Entity class:

     * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Blogger\BlogBundle\BlogRepository")

answered Apr 30 '15 at 12:35

K-Alex

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 28 '17 at 14:04

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For me it helped to restart my vm (Vagrant Box)

answered Aug 28 '17 at 14:04

Heisoka

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I very much doubt that this is a **answer** to the question. If at all, this should be a comment. And you got enough reputation to comment! – GhostCat Aug 28 '17 at 14:09
@GhostCat for me it helped, so why shouldn't this be an answer? There is some issue with doctrine cache or something and this fixed it. I wish I would know more about this, but this solved my problem and I was searching for hours... – Heisoka Aug 29 '17 at 12:41
@Heisoka can you describe the source of the cache problem? – Borys Zielonka Oct 25 '21 at 09:58

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 14 '17 at 16:29

In Symfony 3 you are probably missing the repository class in your orm.xml file.

repository-class="Bundle\Repository\MyRepository"

Example:

<doctrine-mapping>
    <entity name="Bundle\Entity\MyEntity"
            table="tablename"
            repository-class="Bundle\Repository\MyRepository">
        <id name="id" type="integer" column="id">
            <generator strategy="AUTO"/>
        </id>
    </entity>
</doctrine-mapping>

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 19 '22 at 15:36

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In my case, there was no method in that particular place. After placing/creating the according method the error was gone.

answered Apr 19 '22 at 15:36

sh6210

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The method name must start with either findBy or findOneBy. Undefined method Symfony?

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