Question

{
    _id: ObjectId(...),
    discussion_id: ObjectId(...),
    slug: '34db',
    posted: ISODateTime(...),
    author: {
              id: ObjectId(...),
              name: 'Rick'
             },
    text: 'This is so bogus ... '
}

This is what I did so far:

class Discussion
{

   /**
    * @MongoDB\Id
    */
        protected $id;

    /**
     * @MongoDB\ObjectId
     */
    protected $discussion_id;


   /**
     * @MongoDB\String
     */
    protected $slug;


    /**
     * @MongoDB\String    <---------- IS THIS THE RIGHT DATA TYPE?
     */
    protected $author;

     /**
     * @MongoDB\String
     */
    protected $text;


    /**
     * @MongoDB\Date
     */
    protected $createdAt;

}

So in my code:

  $author_info = array(
            "userName" => $userName
            );

        $discussion = new Discussion();
        $discussion->setCreatedAt(new \DateTime());
        $discussion->setAuthor($author_info);
        $discussion->setText($listingInquiry);

My question is am I doing it right? I have a feeling the author type needs to be something else. Please suggest.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you want an ObjectId in your Author, that would be an embedded document ( or you could use a @MongoDB\Hash ).

For an embedded document:

/**
 * @MongoDB\EmbeddedDocument
 */
class Author
{
   /**
    * @MongoDB\ObjectId
    */
   protected $id;

   /**
    * @MongoDB\String
    */
    protected $name;
}

In your main document

/**
 * @MongoDB\EmbedOne(targetDocument="[Namespace]\Author")
 */
 protected $author;

In your code:

$author = new Author();
$author->setId( new \MongoId( $userId ) );
$author->setName( "Mark" );

$discussion->setAuthor( $author);