Bundle cannot be used without Doctrine Annotations

[derrabus]

Symfony's FrameworkBundle automatically integrates Doctrine annotations by exposing an annotation.reader service that this bundle consumes. However, it is possible to disable that integration:

framework:
    annotations: false

If I do that, the container won't compile anymore:

The service "nelmio_api_doc.model_describers.object" has a dependency on a non-existent service "annotations.reader".

Modern Symfony 6 projects would rather use PHP attributes than Doctrine Annotations, so enabling the annotations integration isn't really necessary anymore. NelmioApiDocBundle could not use the annotations reader for anything in such a scenario because there are no annotations it could read from.

Symfony 6.4 triggers a deprecation if the annotations integration is enabled and Symfony 7 simply won't provide that service anymore.

NelmioApiDocBundle should continue to work if I disable the integration of Doctrine Annotations. In that case, Doctrine-style annotations would not be taken into account anymore. Furthermore, NelmioApiDocBundle should not list Doctrine Annotations as a mandatory dependency anymore. Applications that still use Doctrine Annotations should directly depend on that library instead.

[DavidGarciaCat]

Just speaking loudly, as I am not sure... Working on a Symfony 6.3 project where all the Controller's Routes and OpenAPI details are defined as Attributes (not annotations) seem to work. Can we expect this setting to cause a significant problem? Can't it just be detached from the Framework configuration file that manages the annotations?

[derrabus]

I don't understand your question, I'm afraid.

[hamza-grichi]

Hello
I have the same problem when migrate to Symfony 6.4

The service "nelmio_api_doc.model_describers.object" has a dependency on a non-existent service "annotations.reader".

and when i put in my config
framework:
annotations: true

It works, but i have a notice : doctrine annotation reader is deprecated ⚠️

Any solution ?
Thanks

[shakaran]

Could we progress with the PR #2151 and release a new version at least in master?

[denisvanmorgan]

hi, any updates on this?

[faizanakram99]

i am working on this

nvm, saw there is already a PR

[killerwolf]

i am facing the same issue when upgrading to symfony 6.4,
activating annotations in the framework bundle is mandatory is the only option

[zenoleg]

Yep, faced the same problem with NelmioApiDoc and just downloaded the doctrine/annotations + turned on the 'annotations' option in framework bundle