[SOLVED] SonataMedia Bundle: Create Media Entity throws "is_file() expects parameter 1 to be a valid path, string given"

SonataMedia Bundle: Create Media Entity throws "is_file() expects parameter 1 to be a valid path, string given"

I want to create an image media entity (using SonataMediaBundle) with the following code:

$media = new Media();
$media->setBinaryContent($binaryImageContent);
$media->setContext('default');
$media->setProviderName('sonata.media.provider.image');

$this->mediaManager->save($media);

The $binaryImageContent is created like this:

$binaryContent = file_get_contents($filePath);

The $filepath file physically exists.

However instead of creating the media entity I always get the following warning:

Warning: is_file() expects parameter 1 to be a valid path, string given

As the error results within the library I'm not quite sure how to solve this. I'm working in a docker environment so I thought it might also be triggered by some permission problems but the same error occurs on production.

Solution

Okay well ... the solution was to create the binary content as follows:

$binaryContent = new File($filePath);
$imageMediaManager->createImageMediaObject($binaryContent);

Then it's working (on production not on docker but that's another prob)