SonataAdmin hooks are not firing

Question

I have Symfony 2.8. I use SonataAdminBundle v2.3 + a2lix/TranslationFormBundle v2.1 + SonataMediaBundle v2.3. I have NewsAdmin class:

class NewsAdmin extends Admin
{
    protected function configureFormFields(FormMapper $formMapper)
    {
        $formMapper
            ->add('translations', 'a2lix_translations', ['fields' => [
                'content' => [
                    'field_type' => 'ckeditor',
                ]
            ]])
            ->add('excerptImage', 'sonata_type_model_list', [], [
                'link_parameters' => ['context' => 'default'],
                'require' => false
            ])
            ->add('excerptImageSide')
            ->add('category', 'sonata_type_model', [
                'class' => 'AppBundle\Entity\NewsCategory',
                'property' => 'shortName'
            ])
        ;
    }

    // configureDatagridFilters(), configureListFields() ...

    // Does not firing!
    public function postUpdate($news)
    {
        dump('preUpdate');
    }

    // Does not firing!
    public function prePersist($news)
    {
        dump('prePersist');
    }
} 

The problem is that nor postUpdate , nor prePersist methods are not firing, so I don't see in web profiler string 'preUpdate' or 'prePersist'. Why that happens? And how to fix that?

PS Please, let me know if you need more information.

Answer 1

Just add a die and you'll see your dump .

public function prePersist($news)
{
    dump('prePersist');
    die;
}

EDIT

That's because the dump is not called directly from the controller action that renders the view, nor from a method called by the action, but in an EventListener that is totally standalone.