Question

Documentation says:

Changes to fields of the passed entities are not recognized by the flush operation anymore, use the computed change-set passed to the event to modify primitive field values.

But it also says:

getEntityChangeSet() to get a copy of the changeset array. Changes to this returned array do not affect updating.

Does this mean I can not change fields of an entity in preUpdate event listener? If not, how would I go about accomplishing this update?

Answer 1

Apparently you need to recompute the changeset yourself for the changes to take effect:

$em = $args->getEntityManager();
$uow = $em->getUnitOfWork();
$meta = $em->getClassMetadata(get_class($entity));
$uow->recomputeSingleEntityChangeSet($meta, $entity);