How to programatically add fields?

What is the correct way to add new fields to entities programatically?

Continuing from previous discussions (http://oroinc.com/orocrm/forums/topic/simple-how-to-customise-area-of-code“, http://oroinc.com/orocrm/forums/topic/simple-example-of-how-to-make-a-change-to-orocrm), where it was explained how to override Twig templates, I’d be interested in correct programmatic way to add new field to entities, e.g. I want to add string field to Contact entity, without interfering with Oro codebase to avoid conflicts in future.

So far I was able to create my own bundle, which overrides Contact bundle, I’ve created MyField entity and DB table for it, extended Contact entity and added $myField field, but I’m a bit stuck with the controller and routing (I wanted to keep the same route e.g. /contact/view/XY).

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[JaimyParticipant]

Hi David,

Bundle inheritance is explained very nicely for controllers and routing in the Symfony 2 cookbook (http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/bundles/inheritance.html & http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/bundles/override.html). I think that will do the trick :)

Kind Regards,

Jaimy Casteleijn

[Author]

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