DriverChain usage example (Multiple metadata source)

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from the documentation :

Multiple Metadata Sources

When using different components with Doctrine 2, you may end up with them using two different metadata drivers, for example, XML and YAML. You can use the DriverChain Metadata implementations to aggregate these drivers based on namespaces:

<?php
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Driver\DriverChain;

$chain = new DriverChain();
$chain->addDriver($xmlDriver, 'Doctrine\Tests\Models\Company');
$chain->addDriver($yamlDriver, 'Doctrine\Tests\ORM\Mapping');

Based on the namespace of the entity the loading of entities is delegated to the appropriate driver. The chain semantics come from the fact that the driver loops through all namespaces and matches the entity class name against the namespace using a strpos() === 0 call. This means you need to order the drivers correctly if sub-namespaces use different metadata driver implementations.