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geonative/garbage-collector
===========================

Doctrine Entities garbage collector

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Doctrine Garbage Collector
==========================

[](#doctrine-garbage-collector)

This package is a Symfony Bundle providing a "garbage collector" command to prune Doctrine entities that you consider stale.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

PHP 8.4 or above is required.

```
composer require geonative/garbage-collector
```

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

1. Add the bundle into your `config/bundles.php` (likely to be done automatically with Symfony Flex).
2. Update your configuration:

```
# config/packages/doctrine.yaml
doctrine:
  orm:
    mappings:
      GarbageCollectorBundle: ~
```

```
# config/services.yaml
services:
    _instanceof:
        GeoNative\GarbageCollector\PrunableRepositoryInterface:
            tags: [!php/const GeoNative\GarbageCollector\Services\GarbageCollector::PRUNABLE_REPOSITORY]
```

3. Update your database schema:

```
php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --dump-sql --force
```

4. Implement `GeoNative\GarbageCollector\PrunableRepositoryInterface` on your repositories:
    1. `getGarbageCollectorCheckInterval()` should return the minimum interval between checks, to avoid ruining your DB performances
    2. `pruneStaleEntities()` should actually perform removals and return the number of entities which have been removed.

If your entities should be pruned against a DateTime column, you can use `GeoNative\GarbageCollector\PruneStaleEntitiesTrait` to get started faster.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Oneshot

[](#oneshot)

```
php bin/console gc:entities:prune
```

You can store this in a crontab to periodically cleanup your entities.

### Daemonize

[](#daemonize)

This command can also run in a loop and be daemonized with supervisord or systemctl.

The `react/event-loop` package is required.

```
php bin/console gc:entities:prune --loop=5
```

The Garbage Collector will pass every 5 seconds.

### Lock

[](#lock)

If your application runs on multiple hosts, you may want to [prevent several instances](https://symfony.com/doc/current/console/lockable_trait.html)of the Garbage Collector from running simultaneously. To do so, just add a `--lock` option:

```
php bin/console gc:entities:prune --lock
```

Tests
-----

[](#tests)

```
vendor/bin/pest
```

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT.

###  Health Score

50

—

FairBetter than 96% of packages

Maintenance88

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity25

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 76.5% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~310 days

Recently: every ~304 days

Total

6

Last Release

70d ago

PHP version history (5 changes)0.1PHP >=8.0

0.2.1PHP >=8.1

0.3PHP >=8.2

0.4PHP >=8.3

0.5PHP >=8.4

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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###  Code Quality

TestsPest

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