Question

I perform a simple query like this to fetch an association with episodes:

$query = $this->getEntityManager()
            ->createQuery('
        SELECT p,e
        FROM AcmeDemoBundle:Place p
        LEFT JOIN p.episodes e
        WHERE p.id = :id'
        )
            ->setParameter('id',$id);

This is a simple asso:

 /**
 * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Episode", mappedBy="place")
 */
protected $episodes;

This works well. Now, I don’t want to fetch episodes, but simply the place object (and nothing else):

$query = $this->getEntityManager()
            ->createQuery('
        SELECT p
        FROM AcmeDemoBundle:Place p
        LEFT JOIN p.episodes e
        WHERE p.id = :id'
        )
            ->setParameter('id',$id);

This is still loading episodes by lazy-loading. Is there a way to avoid lazy-loading in that case?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

Like this:

$query = $this->getEntityManager()
            ->createQuery('
        SELECT p
        FROM AcmeDemoBundle:Place p
        WHERE p.id = :id'
        )
            ->setParameter('id',$id);

$query->setHint(Query::HINT_FORCE_PARTIAL_LOAD, true);