The configuration of Entity Listeners is confusing

[ntoniazzi]

The documentation for configuring Entity Listeners is not clear to me. It states that starting with doctrine/orm 2.5, you don't need to declare the @ORM\EntityListeners in the entity.

But then, how is the Listener linked to the Entity (I couldn't make it work without the annotation).

I also tried to configure the listeners in the yaml file (path doctrine.orm.entity_managers.{manager}.entity_listeners.entities) without success.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

[paulj3]

@ntoniazzi - agreeed. I am trying to register a listener with a service dependency with no luck.

[kimhemsoe]

We always welcome pull requests :)

[kimhemsoe]

Without more information there is not much i can do help with. The best i can do is to point you in the direction of the tests, which have some examples.

[kimhemsoe]

dup of #457

[Steveb-p]

@kimhemsoe this is probably not a documentation issue. I'm having trouble registering an EntityListener with some dependencies myself and failed to do so. I've went back to using EventSubscriber instead.

I've tried looking into EntityListenerPass and checking if it registers to the proper resolver, and sure enough it does. However, whether I specify @ORM\EntityListeners annotation with my class inside or not - events were not firing :(