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Reputation: 2315

Dynamic properties in Symfony Entity Class

I want to load a variable dynamically with values from an unmapped database (separate Entity Manager "ps"). I created the variable $categories for example.

namespace AppBundle\Entity;


/**
 * ModProduct
 *
 * @ORM\Table(name="mod_product")
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class ModProduct
{
...
public static $categories = [];
...
}

Now I want to fill this property with values. I thought of the following solutions:

The result should simply be, whenever I need ModProduct::$categories it should have fetched the categories once from the secondary database and populated the array for further usage.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1915

Answers (1)

DrKey
DrKey

Reputation: 3495

I would probably create a postLoad event-listener and use it to do whatever you need when the entity is loaded.

Therefore just create a new class

// Event listener

namespace Whatever;

use Doctrine\ORM\Event\LifecycleEventArgs;

class MyEventListener
{
    public function postLoad(LifecycleEventArgs $args)
    {
        $entity = $args->getObject();
        // your logic here..
    }
}

then declare it as a service with related tag

  // services.yaml

  Whatever\MyEventListener:
      tags:
        - { name: doctrine.event_listener, event: postLoad, method: postLoad }

More info in the official documentation.

Upvotes: 2

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