How to sort findAll Doctrine's method?

Question

I've been reading Doctrine's documentation, but I haven't been able to find a way to sort findAll() Results.

I'm using symfony2 + doctrine, this is the statement that I'm using inside my Controller:

$this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('MyBundle:MyTable')->findAll();

but I want the results to be ordered by ascending usernames.

I've been trying to pass an array as an argument this way:

findAll( array('username' => 'ASC') );

but it doesn't work (it doesn't complain either).

Is there any way to do this without building a DQL query?

Answer 1

As @Lighthart as shown, yes it's possible, although it adds significant fat to the controller and isn't DRY.

You should really define your own query in the entity repository, it's simple and best practice.

use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;

class UserRepository extends EntityRepository
{
    public function findAll()
    {
        return $this->findBy(array(), array('username' => 'ASC'));
    }
}

Then you must tell your entity to look for queries in the repository:

/**
 * @ORM\Table(name="User")
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Acme\UserBundle\Entity\Repository\UserRepository")
 */
class User
{
    ...
}

Finally, in your controller:

$this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('AcmeBundle:User')->findAll();