Question

A quick question about saving data in symfony 2. I have this method (just for testing):

protected function createProduct()
{
    $product = new Product();
    $product->setName('My product');
    $product->setDescription('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet');
    $product->setIsPublished(1);
    $product->setPosition(1);


    $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();
    $em->persist($product);
    $em->flush();
}

Then i have the action (just for testing also):

public function indexAction()
{
    $this->createCategory();
    ...
    render ...
}

My problem is that when i execut the index action, the product is save twice in my database. Does anyone had similar problems ? Any way to solve it ?

Update: – full controller test class:

namespace Test\CategoryBundle\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Test\CategoryBundle\Entity\Category;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class CategoryController extends Controller
{
    public function createAction()
    {
        $c = new Category();
        $c->setName('Category');
        $c->setDescription('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet');
        $c->setIsPublished(1);
        $c->setPosition(1);


        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();
        $em->persist($c);
        $em->flush();

        return new Response('Created category id '.$c->getId());

    }

}

Routing in src/Test/CategoryBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml:

TestCategoryBundle_create:
    pattern:  /category/create
    defaults: { _controller: TestCategoryBundle:Category:create }

Routing in app/config/routing.yml:

TestCategoryBundle:
    resource: "@TestCategoryBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml"
    prefix:   /

Answer 1

I found the problem. I don’t know yet if it’s normal, but at least the data is not duplicated anymore.

The problem was solved by adding redirection to the createAction method. If you are not using a redirect, the data is duplicated. It’s normal ??? Anyway, this is the solution that worked for me.

public function createAction()
{
    $c = new Category();
    $c->setName('My Category');
    $c->setDescription('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet');
    $c->setIsPublished(1);
    $c->setPosition(1);

    $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();
    $em->persist($c);
    $em->flush();

    return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('your_routing_name_to_redirect'));
}