How to avoid dependency with entities from different bundles - symfony

Question

I have several bundles in my app and I would like to have relations between tables.
One is my User(StoreOwner) which is in UserBundle, and the second is Store in StoreBundle.
The relation between them is OneToMany (User -> is owner of -> Store).
Store
/**
* Description of Store
*
* #ORM\Table(name="Store")
* #ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Traffic\StoreBundle\Repository\StoreRepository")
* #author bart
*/
class Store extends StoreModel {
/**
* #var integer $id
*
* #ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
*/
protected $id;
/**
* #var string $name
*
* #ORM\Column(type="string", length=255)
* #Assert\NotBlank(
* message="Please provide your shop name"
* )
*/
protected $name;
/**
* #ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Application\Sonata\UserBundle\Entity\StoreOwner", inversedBy="stores")
*
*/
protected $owner;
}
StoreOwner
/**
* #ORM\Entity
*
*/
class StoreOwner extends User implements StoreOwnerInterface {
/**
* #var type ArrayCollection()
*
* #ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Traffic\StoreBundle\Entity\Store", mappedBy="owner", cascade={"persist"})
*/
protected $stores;
}
My question is:
Is there any solution to avoid dependency between StoreBundle and UserBundle and keep relations between Entities in Doctrine?

Answer 1

This is a valid concern in my opinion. Two-way dependencies between bundles are a smell.
One way of solving the dependency issue is moving your entities out of the bundles into a more general namespace. This way both bundles will depend on the same "library" but won't depend on each other directly.
I recently wrote a blog post on how to do it: How to store Doctrine entities outside of a Symfony bundle?