Doctrine 2 - Disallow null value on foreign keys of ManyToOne relationships

Question

I have a ManyToOne relationship in one of my entities, like so:

class License {
    // ...
    /**
     * Customer who owns the license
     * 
     * @var \ISE\LicenseManagerBundle\Entity\Customer
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Customer", inversedBy="licenses")
     * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="customer_id", referencedColumnName="id")
     */
    private $customer;
    // ...
}

class Customer {
    // ...
    /**
     * Licenses that were at one point generated for the customer
     * 
     * @var \Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection
     * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="License", mappedBy="customer")
     */
    private $licenses;
    // ...
}

This generates a database schema where the "customer_id" field of the license table is allowed to be null, which is exactly what I do not want.

Here's some code where I create a record to prove that it indeed allows null values for the reference fields:

$em = $this->get('doctrine')->getEntityManager();
$license = new License();
// Set some fields - not the reference fields though
$license->setValidUntil(new \DateTime("2012-12-31"));
$license->setCreatedAt(new \DateTime());
// Persist the object
$em->persist($license);
$em->flush();

Basically, I don't want a License to be persisted without having a Customer assigned to it. Is there some annotation that needs to be set or should I just require a Customer object to be passed to my License's constructor?

The database engine I use is MySQL v5.1, and I am using Doctrine 2 in a Symfony2 application.

Answer 1

https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/2.6/reference/annotations-reference.html#annref_joincolumn

Add nullable = false to the JoinColumn annotation:

@ORM\JoinColumn(..., nullable=false)