symfony doctrine will not default a boolean to 0 - mysql

Question

I have tried in several ways to have symfony default a boolean to 0 rather than null (as null gives me a database level error upon flush).
An exception occurred while executing a query: SQLSTATE[23000]:
Integrity constraint violation: 1048 Column 'auto_created' cannot be
null
This made no difference:
/**
* #ORM\Column(type="boolean", options={"default":"0"})
*/
private $autoCreated;
Some logic i the setter made no difference either
public function setAutoCreated(bool $autoCreated): self
{
if is_null($autoCreated) {
$autoCreated = 0;
}
$this->autoCreated = $autoCreated;
return $this;
}
As well as
public function setAutoCreated(bool $autoCreated): self
{
if is_null($autoCreated) {
$autoCreated = false;
}
$this->autoCreated = $autoCreated;
return $this;
}
Database looks like this
I am clearly missing something...?
Sure I can do a simple $user->setAutoCreated(false); everywhere I create this entity, but I don't get why I should have to 😎

Answer 1

Depending on the version of PHP you're using, you should be able to do something like this in your entity class:
/**
* #ORM\Column(type="boolean")
*/
private $autoCreated = false;
Whenever an instance of this class is created, $autoCreated will be set to false. So when you try to persist the object, it'll have a default value of false and Doctrine will set the field to 0.
Alternatively, you can explicitly set $autoCreated to false in your constructor:
public function __construct()
{
$this->autoCreated = false;
}
Note that you can only use the first approach for simple, built-in PHP types or constants. For more complicated objects (e.g., a Doctrine ArrayCollection) you'll need to use the constructor approach.