Question

With class table inheritance,

/**
 * @Entity
 * @InheritanceType("JOINED")
 * @DiscriminatorColumn(name="discr", type="string")
 * @DiscriminatorMap({"person" = "Person", "employee" = "Employee"})
 */
class Person

How can I get the type info from the entity? Since discr is a database column but not a property of the entity?

Answer 1

You can create abstract method getKind() in parent class and implement it in subclasses like

public function getKind()
{
  return 'employee';
}