I am stuck with a problem please help me with it. Here is the scenarario:
I have an entity "User" and corresponding repository "UserRepository", inside my entity there are only getter and setter methods. All custom queries I have written to UserRepository. Now inside my UserController I am trying to access repository methods which I am not able to do so. e.g. User entity:
class User
{
...
public function getId()
{
return $this->id;
}
public function setId($id)
{
return $this->id=$id;
}
public function setProperty($property)
{
$this->property = $property;
}
public function getProperty()
{
return $this->property;
}
....
}
?>
UserRepository:
class UserRepository extends EntityRepository
{
public function findUsersListingById($id)
{
$queryBuilder = $this->getEntityManager()->createQueryBuilder();
$query = $em->createQuery(
"SELECT U
FROM UserEntityPathGoesHere
WHERE U.id IN (".implode(",", $id).")"
);
$users = $query->getResult();
return $users;
}
public function sayHelloWorld(){
echo ' Hello World';
}
}
?>
UserController
class UserController
{
...
$users=$this->getDoctrine()
->getRepository('MyUserEntityPath')
->findUsersListingById($ids);
//now I have multiple users I want to iterate through each user for associating additional data with each user
foreach($users as $user)
{
$temp = array();
//I am able to access getId method which is defined in User entity
$temp['id'] = $user->getId();
//however I am not able to access method from UserRepository, I tried something like below which gives me error call to undefined function sayHelloWorld
$temp['status'] = $user->sayHelloWorld();
....
}
}
....
How can I access repository methods for an entity? Is it possible ? If not then what are the alternatives for the solution?
Everything is possible however you should not access the entity's repository from the entity itself because of the separation of concerns.
See this Stackoverflow answer for more details.
Basically, the whole idea is that you want to have your application organized the following way.
In short:
It should not go in the other direction otherwise it creates a mess.
If you want to go a bit further into the separation of concerns you could do the following.
Alternative solutions:
There are probably others but you would know better how your application is organized.