Question

I’m currently playing around with Symfony2 and like it very much so far. One question has arisen though and I’m wondering what the best practice would be.

If I want to persist an entity I have to go like this:

<?php
$myEntity = new Entity();
$myEntity->setSomeData('just an example');
$em = $this->get('doctrine')->getEntityManager();
$em->persist($myEntity);
$em->flush();

This seems like an awful lot of code to be done over and over again. What I’d prefer is something like that:

<?php
$myEntity = new Entity();
$myEntity->setSomeData('just an example');
$myEntity->persist();

However, based on how I have to get the entity manager, this seems far from best practice. So what am I supposed to do? Any hints on how you handle it?

Answer 1

This is the standard way to do it to keep a proper separation of concerns. Entities should not know about the persistence layer.

What you can easily do is add a shortcut persistAndFlush method on your controller class though, if you really have that many code that creates and persists new entities.