Core: Question: Does the API Platform support Propel

[kinekt4]

It looks like the API Platform uses Doctrine quite heavily.

We currently have a requirement to use Propel instead of Doctrine.

Does the API Platform support Propel. If not, does it intend to support Propel in the future.

Thanks

[dunglas]

Hi @denormalizer,

There is no builtin Propel adapter but you can add support for it (or any other persistance layer) by implementing the data providers interface: https://api-platform.com/docs/core/data-providers

As far as I know, nobody is actually working on Propel support, but if someone want to contribute it, we'll be happy to merge it.

[tacman]

Propel is dead. Propel 1.7 is marked as outdated and unmaintained, Propel 2 has been in alpha for a few years now. Any time spent supporting Propel would be better spent migrating to Doctrine. Alas, this was a very expensive lesson for us to learn!

[kinekt4]

@tacman It depends what drivers you are using and what platform you are running it on. If you can get doctrine to play nice with MS SQL on Linux let me know.

• http://propelorm.org/documentation/cookbook/using-mssql-server.html
• http://docs.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-dbal/en/latest/reference/configuration.html

[Simperfit]

@denormalizer Maybe this could be contributed in ApiPlatform or in a external bundle, i'm not using propel at all so I could not help with this.

[kinekt4]

@Simperfit That's OK, I'm not really pushing for it. I can understand why Propel is not supported by default.

[Simperfit]

As said, this could be in an external bundle first, if this is something people want we could think about adding in the core.