Originally posted on https://symfonycasts.com/blog/honest-entities Your Doctrine entities are...
Originally posted on https://symfonycasts.com/blog/honest-entities
Your Doctrine entities are lying to you!
For years, the standard way to build Doctrine entities in Symfony has looked
something like this (and it's still what MakerBundle generates today):
#[ORM\Entity]
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