I'm having a similar problem that is explained in this post but the offered solution does not work in my case. Here's the issue...
I am using Symfony2, which uses Doctrine2 for the ORM, to insert new users into the database. When I use the object method to insert the user, a null value is inserted into fields that I don't want to insert anything into (so the default value will be inserted).
This is how I want the generated INSERT statement to look:
INSERT into mytable (name) VALUES (?)
array(1) {
[1]=>
string(6) "myName"
}
And this is how Doctrine creates the INSERT statement
INSERT into mytable (name, token, creationDate) VALUES (?,?,?)
array(3) {
[1]=>
string(6) "myName"
[2]=>
NULL
[3]=>
NULL
}
The token should have a default value that is defined using postgresql's uuid_generate_v5 method. The creationDate should have a default of now(). The NULL values that doctrine is inserting override these default values.
Is there any way to get doctrine to ignore certain fields on insert?