Question

I have just run myself into this tricky situation.
I have an entity called Gift.

Now the gift entity needs to have a field called receiver which can be associated with 2 entities RegisteredUser entity OR Guest entity.

The problem here is now how do I define the association for the receiver field!!

I thought of creating an entity called GiftReceiver use inheritance mapping but I cannot map the discriminator to a class which does not extend GiftReceiver.

Am I going the wrong way? Is there a good way to implement this?
Thanks in advance for your help!! 🙂

Answer 1

how about making a subclass of User as Guest and you can just map the receiver field to User entity.
When you fetch the receiver entity on the Gift, doctrine will fetch the appropriate object Guest or RegisteredUser