Question

I am working on a Zend Framework project that leverages Doctrine 2. I’m trying to get Symfony’s DI container working with the project as well, but I’m having trouble. Suppose I have a class “Foo” that needs two instances injected. I can set up a Symfony DI container no problem to fetch me a new “Foo” with the dependencies injected. Great! But now what if I want to make “Foo” a Doctrine entity? All is well when I insert the entity to the DB because I can grab a new one from the DI container and simply persist the entity. However, when I query the entity from the DB Doctrine is instantiating my “Foo” instances and they will not have the proper dependencies injected. How do I get Doctrine to use my DI container so that the entity will have the appropriate dependencies? I know that Doctrine offers a “postLoad” hook in that I could use to inject dependencies on my entity, but that kind of defeats the purpose and benefit of the DI container.

Answer 1

A Doctrine Entity is a newable, not an injectable. Entities are not supposed to be created through a DIC. See this following blog post on the difference between newable and injectable:

http://misko.hevery.com/2008/09/30/to-new-or-not-to-new/