PHOTO FIELD IN EASYADMIN IS NOT SHOWING

Question

I am trying to display some images in my bundle (using easyadmin bundle) & symfony 3.4 However, for some reason, the photos aren't showing. here's my code: in config.yml:

       Employee:
        class: BackofficeBundle\Entity\Employee
        role_prefix: ROLE_EMPLOYEE_MANAGER
        list:
            fields:
                - id
                - Name
                - { property: 'photo', label: 'EMPLOYEE AVATAR', type: 'image' , base_path: '/images/' }

in my Employee entity:

 /**
 * @ORM\Column(name="photo", type="string", length=500)
 * @Assert\File(maxSize="500k", mimeTypes={"image/jpeg", "image/jpg", "image/png", "image/GIF"})
 */
private $photo;

in my EmployeeType.php

 $builder->add('photo', FileType::class, array('data_class'=>null, 'required'=>false
    ));

The photo aren't showing in the List page and when i click on the edit i get this error :

The form's view data is expected to be an instance of class Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\File, but is a(n) string. You can avoid this error by setting the "data_class" option to null or by adding a view transformer that transforms a(n) string to an instance of Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\File.

Answer 1

For this case, please consider using VichUploadBundle https://symfony.com/doc/master/bundles/EasyAdminBundle/integration/vichuploaderbundle.html