Doctrine Associations Mapping - symfony

Question

I'm trying Doctrine Associations with Symfony2 for the first time and it's giving me headache.
I have an Admin interface that can, among other things, upload images. I want to know which administrator uploaded what image so i've putted a foreign key administrator to my images table. To gather data, a simple JOIN is necessary to collect the data but with Doctrine, I'm stuck, altough it seems simple.
So, I have an Administrator object that reflects the table. In that object, I have this statement...
#ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="ImageBundleNamespace\ImageEntity", mappedBy="administrator")
It's simple. In my ImageEntity object (that reflects Images table) is a foreigh key column administrator.
In the ImageEntity object, I use this statement...
#ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="AdministratorNamespace\Administrator", inversedBy="imageEntity")
#ORM\JoinColumn(name="administrator", referencedColumnName="id")
There is a administrator field in ImageEntity and a imageEntity field in Administrator that the formentioned statements are mapping.
It doesn't work.
I've run the SchemaValidator on the EntityManger and it says the the administrator field on the ImageEntity object is not defined as an association. The second message says that the administrator field does not exist.
If it helps, this is my DQL for all of it...
'SELECT i.id,
i.imeSlike,
i.velicina,
i.ekstenzija,
i.paths,
a.username,
a.ime,
a.prezime FROM ImageBundle:ImageEntity i
JOIN a.administrator a'
Thank you in advance for all the help.
EDIT
I had a mistake in DQL. Corrected it.
EDIT
I forgot to add the source code.
Association part of the Administrator...
**
* #ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Icoo\Administracija\GalerijaBundle\Entity\ImageEntity", mappedBy="administrator")
*/
protected $imageEntity;
public function __construct() {
$this->imageEntity = new ArrayCollection();
}
Association part of the ImageEntity
/**
* #ORM\Column(type="smallint")
*
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Icoo\LoginBundle\Entity\Administrator", inversedBy="imageEntity")
* #ORM\JoinColumn(name="administrator", referencedColumnName="id")
*
*/
protected $administrator;

Answer 1

In the administrator class, you have:
/**
* #ORM\Column(type="smallint")
*
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Icoo\LoginBundle\Entity\Administrator", inversedBy="imageEntity")
* #ORM\JoinColumn(name="administrator", referencedColumnName="id")
*
*/
you need to remove the #ORM\Column(type="smallint")
This must be all. Let me know.

Answer 2

You can separate field mapping from association mapping:
/**
* #ORM\Column(name="administrator", type="smallint", nullable=false, options={"unsigned"=true})
*/
protected $administratorId;
/**
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Icoo\LoginBundle\Entity\Administrator", inversedBy="imageEntity")
* #ORM\JoinColumn(name="administrator", referencedColumnName="id")
**/
protected $administrator;
If you go further you can put exception into $administratorId getter/setter to avoid usage of it.
As i have tested, doctrine ignores value into $administratorId property when you persist/flush your entity (For confirmation you can look at prepareUpdateData() in Doctrine\ORM\Persisters\BasicEntityPersister)
EDIT
I think, my previous variant is possible but wrong. Because, doctrine gets field mapping from definitions in referencedColumn, you can add some more definitions using
* #ORM\JoinColumn(name="administrator", referencedColumnName="id", unique, nullable, onDelete, columnDefinition, fieldName)
This means that your image_entity.administrator field in db will be the same as your administrator.id field in db (except of additional definitions)