http://www.doctrine-project.org/jira This file is an XML representation of an issue en-us 5.2.7 850 21-02-2013 http://www.doctrine-project.org/jira/browse/DDC-2034 Doctrine 2 - ORM <div class="code panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent"> <pre class="code-java"> $variant = $em-&gt;getPartialReference('Entity\Variant', -1); echo $variant-&gt;getVariantId(); </pre> </div></div> <p>prints -1. Is it an expected behavior or a bug? Shouldn't a check be made to prevent creating new instances for ids that do not exist?</p> DDC-2034

getPartialReference returns partial entities for non existent entities

Bug Major Resolved Invalid All Benjamin Eberlei Oleg Namaka Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:30:32 +0000 Fri, 5 Oct 2012 21:27:19 +0000 Fri, 5 Oct 2012 21:27:19 +0000 0 3 <p>Well, the purpose of <tt>getPartialReference</tt> is to return a reference without querying the database. So it cannot know if the id exists.<br/> <a href="https://github.com/doctrine/doctrine2/blob/master/lib/Doctrine/ORM/EntityManager.php#L481" class="external-link">https://github.com/doctrine/doctrine2/blob/master/lib/Doctrine/ORM/EntityManager.php#L481</a></p> <p>Ok, in that case a user is responsible for providing a valid id. But what is a use case for such an entity? Can someone give me a real example?</p> <p>the use case was partially removed by proxy objects now being capable of returning the id without querying. </p>