Question

Is there some magic in Symfony/doctrine with a model called JosVmOrderHistory?

I have this schema.yml excerpt:

JosVmOrder:
  tableName: jos_vm_orders
  columns:
    order_id: { type: integer(4), primary: true, autoincrement: true }
    user_id: { type: integer(4), notnull: true }
    vendor_id: { type: integer(4), notnull: true }
    order_number: { type: string(32), notnull: false }
    user_info_id: { type: string(32), notnull: false }
    order_total: { type: 'decimal(15, 5)', notnull: true }
    order_subtotal: { type: 'decimal(15, 5)', notnull: false }
    order_tax: { type: 'decimal(10, 2)', notnull: false }
    order_tax_details: { type: string(), notnull: true }
    order_shipping: { type: 'decimal(10, 2)', notnull: false }
    order_shipping_tax: { type: 'decimal(10, 2)', notnull: false }
    coupon_discount: { type: 'decimal(12, 2)', notnull: true }
    coupon_code: { type: string(32), notnull: false }
    order_discount: { type: 'decimal(12, 2)', notnull: true }
    order_currency: { type: string(16), notnull: false }
    order_status: { type: string(1), notnull: false }
    cdate: { type: integer(4), notnull: false }
    mdate: { type: integer(4), notnull: false }
    ship_method_id: { type: string(255), notnull: false }
    customer_note: { type: string(), notnull: true }
    ip_address: { type: string(15), notnull: true }
  relations:
    User: { class: JosUser, local: user_id, foreignAlias: OrderList }
    LatestVmOrderDetail: { class: LatestVmOrderDetail, local: order_id, foreign: order_id }

JosVmOrderHistory:
  tableName: jos_vm_order_history
  columns:
    order_status_history_id: { type: integer(4),primary: true, autoincrement: true }
    order_id: { type: integer(4) }
    order_status_code: { type: string(1) }
    date_added: { type: timestamp(25) }
    customer_notified: { type: integer(4), notnull: false }
    comments: { type: clob(16777777), notnull: false }
  relations:
    Order: { class: JosVmOrder, local: order_id, foreign: order_id }
    OrderStatus: { class: JosVmOrderStatus, local: order_status_code, foreign: order_status_code }

Firstly, the foreignAlias of JosVmOrderHistory is “JosVmOrderHistory”, not “JosVmOrderHistoryList” as I would have assumed.

Secondly, in model/doctrine/Order.class.php, I have the following function:

function getPaymentStatus(){

    $historyList = $this->getJosVmOrderHistory();
    if (count($historyList)){

        return $paymentStatus = $historyList[0];
    }else{
        return $paymentStatus = null;
    }
}

$historyList is always in descending order of order_status_history_id. I even added to model/doctrine/JosVmOrderHistoryTable.class.php:

public function createQuery($alias){

    return parent::createQuery($alias)->orderBy('order_status_history_id asc');


}

but it stays in descending order..

Edit: I’ve updated the subject – this problem seems to come down to how to control the OrderBy of a relation query. createQuery doesn’t seem to be called at all.

Answer 1

If you need this for speed reasons you shouldnt load the entire order history from the DB if you are just interested in the first one, instead use a query like:

function getPaymentStatus(){

    $historyList = Doctrine::getTable('JosVmOrderHistory')->createQuery()->where('order_id = ?', $this->order_id)->orderBy('order_status_history_id')->limit(1)->execute();
    if (count($historyList)){

        return $paymentStatus = $historyList[0];
    }else{
        return $paymentStatus = null;
    }
}

That being said, it is possible to automatically affect the sorting more like what you were trying to do by using a listener. In the past, I have created a generic sort behavior that you can use like:

  actAs:
    DefaultSort: { column: title }