Question

I’m using doctrine query to receive a single instance of a domain object:

$entity = $query->getSingleResult();

Now I would like to hydrate $entity AFTER I received it already, so that $entity is an array (like when receiving it using \Doctrine\ORM\Query::HYDRATE_ARRAY).

I’m looking for something like this:

$doctrine->hydrate($entity, \Doctrine\ORM\Query::HYDRATE_ARRAY);

Is there way to achieve this using Doctrine?

Answer 1

I was looking for the same thing, but haven’t found it.
There are some infinite recursion problems with serializing entities because of circular referencing.

In the end, I rolled my own serialize function based on this example