Question

I’ve been trying to test a model in a Symfony2 project, but I don’t know how to get the entity manager to save and retrive records.

Can anyone point me to the right docs for this?

Answer 1

In order to test your models, you can use setUp() method. link to docs

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\WebTestCase;

class MyModelTest extends WebTestCase
{
    /**
     * @var EntityManager
     */
    private $_em;

    protected function setUp()
    {
        $kernel = static::createKernel();
        $kernel->boot();
        $this->_em = $kernel->getContainer()->get('doctrine.orm.entity_manager');
        $this->_em->beginTransaction();
    }

    /**
     * Rollback changes.
     */
    public function tearDown()
    {
        $this->_em->rollback();
    }

    public function testSomething()
    {
        $user = $this->_em->getRepository('MyAppMyBundle:MyModel')->find(1);
    }

Hope this helps you