Automatic Entity field resolving

[panunu]

The following demonstrates what I mean with automatic field resolving:

$this->factory
    ->define('Entity')
    ->resolve();

And that would be all you need. Of course you would have the option to override the fields that you specifically want to define.

How?

One could read and resolve the fields from Doctrine mapping annotations.

Downsides/blockers/to be resolved

• Fixtures would be even more coupled to Doctrine
• How to automatically generate some content to fields which have complicated validation rules?

[mpartel]

I guess the default values would be something like "example_username_%d".

One could also add an annotation like `@example "My Example Value %d". Then the example would be close to the validation annotations.

Actually, it looks like xi-fixtures could be made entirely annotation-driven. Not sure if we want to, since code is more flexible than annotations.

[panunu]

I would not want to mix test and production code. Therefore I think annotations (on the actual Entity) are out of the question.

[mpartel]

Hmm, I don't see the problem. Annotations are effectively just comments, and these could even be informative ones. An analogy could be made to types.