Symfony3, creating entity without mapping all table fields

Question

I have a database table which has a lot of fields. I want to create an Entity which maps only to few of those fields.
Is there a practical way to achieve that?

When I try to make an entity and mapping it via annotations, the doctrine:schema:validate command says that the entity is not in sync, and is right.
When I try to make a doctrine:schema:update it automatically drops all the fields that the entity doesn't have. I want that the schema update command updates only the fields written in my entity class.

Answer 1

With Doctrine ORM you map your database table to a PHP class and a row from that table is mapped to an instance of the entity class. So i am pretty sure that you have to map all your fields. Otherwise if you dont want to - user ActiveRecord, it is possible there.