Symfony2 from beta1 to beta2

Today I had to migrate existing project from Symfony2 Beta 1 version to Beta2.
First I looked at the difference between my config files and new one provided with Beta2.After some minor changes to config files, when I tried to start project in browser to see possible errors, I see not so happy surprise:

Annotation syntax in controllers and models are no longer working for me this way.
After some digging into code and official Symfony2 documentation here is what I found:

1. In controllers, instead of:

    /**
     * @extra:Route("/admin/applications", name="_admin_applications")
     * @extra:Template()
     */

It has to be written like that:

    /**
     * @Route("/admin/applications", name="_admin_applications")
     * @Template()
     */

2. Don’t forget to add these two lines on the top of each controller:

use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Template;

3. In entities, instead of:

/**
 * @orm:Entity(repositoryClass="Surgeworks\AdminBundle\Entity\AttributeTypeRepository")
 * @orm:Table(name="attribute_types")
 */
class AttributeType {
 
    /**
     * @orm:Id
     * @orm:Column(type="integer")
     * @orm:GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    protected $id;

It should be like:

/**
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Surgeworks\AdminBundle\Entity\AttributeTypeRepository")
 * @ORM\Table(name="attribute_types")
 */
class AttributeType {
 
    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    protected $id;

4. Don’t forget to add this line on the top of each entity:

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

Also I used some annotations like this in my entity:

     * @assert:Type(type="Surgeworks\AdminBundle\Entity\Status")
 
    protected $item_status;

but, this also is not working anymore, and instead of this it shoul be like this:

     * @Assert\Type(type="Surgeworks\AdminBundle\Entity\Status")

Of course, we should add one more line on the top to get all the thing work:

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

That was just short tutorial for fast migration from Symfony2 beta1 version to Symfony2 Beta 2 version.

I hope in the future they will not add so many changes in the core framework, because every time new version is out, I have to loose few hours to upgrade. 🙂

PS. Don’t forget to clear all cache before testing.