Orm: DDC-1737: MEDIUMTEXT field

[doctrinebot]

Jira issue originally created by user olegk:

I have a field which I want to be mysql mediumtext
/**
* @var string $description
*
* @ORM\Column(name="description", type="string", length=65536)
*/
private $description;

Everything is fine, field created as 'mediumtext'
but whenever I run
php app/console doctrine:schema:update --dump-sql

I get
ALTER TABLE table CHANGE description description MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL;
though description is MEDIUMTEXT already.

[doctrinebot]

Comment created by @guilhermeblanco:

Issue seems to be fixed already in master.

Coverage test:
https://github.com/doctrine/dbal/commit/4030787aa178b5c85d4717a75c43eb122edbd68d

[doctrinebot]

Issue was closed with resolution "Fixed"

[fmonts]

I still have the exact same issue with orm 2.7.1, dbal 2.10.1

/**
 * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=16777215, nullable=false)
 * @Assert\Length(max=16777215)
 * @Assert\NotBlank()
 */
private $content;

show create table:

`content` mediumtext COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL,

php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --dump-sql:

ALTER TABLE messages CHANGE content content MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL;

The same if I change length to 65536 or I remove nullable=false.

[petski]

For anyone running into the same issue as @fmonts:

Use type="text" instead of type="string", i.e.:

@ORM\Column(type="text", length=16777215, nullable=false)