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[DDC-2226] addFilterConstraint is called with wrong ClassMetadata, if Entity uses inheritance

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:58:02 +0000

When using the filter system to modify the generated SQL the addFilterConstraint method always receives the metadata of the parent object. Both for Joined and Single Table Inheritance, which is not helpful if you want to do something based on the entity, but for example the parent entity does not fulfill the prequisites.

[DDC-2220] Add joins to Collection Filtering API

Thu, 3 Jan 2013 20:21:21 +0000

The recently added collection filtering API only goes half way in achieving a full fledged solution to filter huge collections. It still lacks joins. Look at the next two snippets:

    $criteria = Criteria::create()
        ->where(Criteria::expr()->eq('storeId', $store->getId()))
        ->andWhere(Criteria::expr()->eq('Category', 20))
        ->orderBy(array('popularity' => 'DESC'));
    return $this->BrandCategories->matching($criteria);

This piece of code works but what if there is a need to filter the BrandCategories collection by Categories with some extra criteria:

    $criteria = Criteria::create()
        ->where(Criteria::expr()->eq('storeId', $store->getId()))
        ->andWhere(Criteria::expr()->eq('Category', 20))
        ->andWhere(Criteria::expr()->eq('Category.name', 'Electronics'))
        ->orderBy(array('popularity' => 'DESC'));
    return $this->BrandCategories->matching($criteria);

That would not work.

Ideally we should have a possibility to join other entities, the Category entity in our case here:

    $criteria = Criteria::create()
        ->where(Criteria::expr()->eq('storeId', $store->getId()))
        ->andWhere(Criteria::expr()->eq('Category', 20))
        ->innerJoin(Criteria::expr()->field('Category', 'Category'))
        ->andWhere(Criteria::expr()->eq('Category.name', 'Electronics'))
        ->orderBy(array('popularity' => 'DESC'));
    return $this->BrandCategories->matching($criteria);

What do you think about it, does it make sense to add such functionality?

[DDC-2185] Better explain DQL "WITH" and implications for the collection filtering API

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:07:03 +0000

Available documentation is a bit thin regarding the "WITH" clause on JOIN expressions. Only a single example is provided in

http://docs.doctrine-project.org/en/2.1/reference/dql-doctrine-query-language.html#dql-select-examples

WITH seems to allow to only "partially" load a collection, so the collection in memory does not fully represent the associations available in the database.

The resulting collection is marked as "initialized" and it seems there is no way to tell later on whether/how (with which expression) the collection has been initialized.

When using the collection filtering API, the "initialized" flag on the collection will lead to in-memory processing. If a collection has been loaded WITH a restricting clause and another filter is applied later, results may not be what one might expect.

I assume this is by design (no idea how the collection could be "partially" loaded and behave correctly under all conditions), so filing it as a documentation issue.