[DDC-2306] Lazy loading associated entity's property causes identity loss when another association is set to fetch="EAGER"

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:27:25 +0000

There appears to be a bug in UnitOfWork.php, introduced in Merge pull request #406 from Ocramius/DCOM-96. The relevant section is lines 2479-2495.

In the attached test sandbox, there are 4 entities.

User and Address have a many-many relationship via UserAddress – this more or less duplicates what I have in my actual application. There is another entity that both User and Address refer to in a one-to-many relationship – Zone.

When the Zone relationship on User and Address is set to fetch="LAZY", the problem is absent. When the relationship is set to fetch="EAGER", the problem manifests as such:

When I load a User via $em->find(), and then access properties on a related Address, the identity of the Address is lost. The same is true going in the other direction. I var_dump the Address before accessing its street property, and it shows up properly as an uninitialized proxy with just the id set. After I access the street property of the Address, var_dump shows the proxy is loaded and initialized, with all properties set except the identity, which is now null.

I stepped through the code using XDebug, and found that the referenced lines in UnitOfWork.php are setting the created Address entity's properties incorrectly, removing the identity from the generated entity. It seems to have something to do with the _hints parameter.

I'm not sure what the fix is, because I am not familiar enough with this part of the code and what it is intended to do. I assume that this is not intended behavior.

I've included my test case sandbox, which references ../../../../autoload.php to load Doctrine. This was tested against doctrine2/master as of today.

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[DDC-2306] Lazy loading associated entity's property causes identity loss when another association is set to fetch="EAGER"