Symfony - how to add field type year in entity

Question

I'm trying to add field in entity of type year.
Like this:

/**
 * @ORM\Column(type="year")
 */
private $release;

Symfony docs says there is no such option for Date/Time Type for entity fields, only
following Date/Time Types:

• datetime (or datetime_immutable)
• datetimetz (or datetimetz_immutable)
• date (or date_immutable)
• time (or time_immutable)

Is it possible to declare field type as year?

Answer 1

There's no Year Type in doctrine. but you can still use a string to save it, and convert it to datetime object in getters/setters.