EDIT: if people could please give a hint as to why they downvote that would be great. Otherwise there is zero learning to be had.

I would like to have tests dealing with Doctrine not persist stuff in the main Symfony dev database. Preferably by not storing stuff at all (rolling back per test). How would I do this? Are there ready-made frameworks/libs/setups I can use?

At work we have a really smooth working Java setup where database tests extends custom JUnit test classes we have created. TransactionallyIsolatedITest for running everything within a transaction that is rolled back (fast), FullyIsolatedITest for testing stuff that do their own begin(), commit(), stuff, etc. This creates and tears down a database created from a template for each test (heavy/slow).

Having something like this would be beautful when doing Symfony development in PHP.

CodePudding user response：

You could try overriding the setUp method, inside that you can get the enityManager instance like this $em = self::getContainer()->get('doctrine')->getManager(); and then purge the database via the Doctrine ORM purger

$purger = new Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\Purger\ORMPurger($em);
$purger->purge();

CodePudding user response：

In the Symfony 6 documentation they actually describe and show how to reset the database before every test using the DAMADoctrineTestBundle.