Is there a reason for roles to get persisted as an extra object or should I just save them as an array in the $roles property of my User entity?
Is there a reason for roles to get persisted as an extra object or
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Is there a reason for roles to get persisted as an extra object or should I just save them as an array in the $roles property of my User entity?
It depends. If you don’t need to do special queries based on roles and/or don’t mind locking yourself to a particular database vendor supporting arrays, persisting as an array will do.