symfony annotations validation override entities/models - validation

Question

I'm trying to override the entities validatation of a forum bundle.
I do it like this:
Category entity:
//src/MSD/ForoBundle/Entity/Category.php
namespace MSD\ForoBundle\Entity;
use Herzult\Bundle\ForumBundle\Entity\Category as BaseCategory;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
/**
* #ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Herzult\Bundle\ForumBundle\Entity\CategoryRepository")
*/
class Category extends BaseCategory
{
}
Topic entity:
//src/MSD/ForoBundle/Entity/Topic.php
namespace MSD\ForoBundle\Entity;
use Herzult\Bundle\ForumBundle\Entity\Topic as BaseTopic;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
/**
* Topic
*
* #ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Herzult\Bundle\ForumBundle\Entity\TopicRepository")
*
*/
class Topic extends BaseTopic
{
/**
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Category")
*/
protected $category;
/**
* #Assert\NotBlank()
* #Assert\MinLength(limit=4, message="Just a little too short| ")
* #Assert\Regex(
* pattern="/^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_¿?!¡ ]{4,50}$/",
* message="El tema puede contener letras, números, guiones y espacios, interrogantes y exclamaciones. Entre 4 y 30 caracteres"
* )
*/
protected $subject;
/**
* {#inheritDoc}
*/
public function getAuthorName()
{
return $this->author;
}
/**
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="User")
*/
private $author;
public function setAuthor(User $user)
{
$this->author = $user;
}
public function getAuthor()
{
return $this->author;
}
}
Post Entity:
//src/MSD/ForoBundle/Entity/Post.php
namespace MSD\ForoBundle\Entity;
use Herzult\Bundle\ForumBundle\Entity\Post as BasePost;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
/**
* #ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Herzult\Bundle\ForumBundle\Entity\PostRepository")
*/
class Post extends BasePost
{
/**
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Topic")
*/
protected $topic;
/**
* #Assert\Regex(
* pattern="/^[^<>]{4,1000}$/",
* message="El mensaje no puede contener '<' ni '>'. Entre 4 y 1000 caracteres"
* )
*
*/
public $message;
public function getAuthorName()
{
return $this->author;
}
/**
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="User")
*/
private $author;
public function setAuthor(User $user)
{
$this->author = $user;
}
public function getAuthor()
{
return $this->author;
}
}
And the validation works... except the message of the firt post!! that is created when a new topic is created.
I've tried many changes, but without success.
Any idea of why does it happend?
Thank you

Answer 1

Yeah! I got it. The solution was to add this in the Topic entity:
/**
* #Assert\NotBlank
* #Assert\Valid
*/
protected $firstPost;
Then, the message of the first post is validated.