[DDC-687] Add New Entity Attribute "idGetter" to allow accessing the ID without triggering lazy-load

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:23:14 +0000

Often people present us with the use-case that they want to access the ID of a proxy without loading it.

This has lead to several ugly solutions like mapping the ID to an object and as a foreign key field. There currently exists a simple solution for this:

$id = $em->getUnitOfWork()->getEntityIdentifier($entity->getRelatedProxy());

However we could add a new property here called "idGetter" that would take the name of a method.

During Proxy Generation then this method is created with magic functionality that:

1. In case of Single Primary Key returns the single value
2. In case of Composite Primary Key returns an array of the values in their UoW internal order
3. Throw an Exception if the method does not exist on the original object

Doctrine Project

[DDC-687] Add New Entity Attribute "idGetter" to allow accessing the ID without triggering lazy-load