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geosocio/entity-attacher
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Utility to Attach Doctrine Entities to existing instances

1.0.6(8y ago)366211LGPL-3.0-onlyPHP

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[](#entity-attacher--)

Provides a method to attach *related* entities to the current *unattached*entity.This library is the product of a missing API that was found in [doctrine/doctrine2#6459](https://github.com/doctrine/doctrine2/issues/6459). If you want to create a new entity with a lot of existing related entities, you would have to manually go through each relation and attach the related entities.

This can be tedious for entities that have a large number of relationships.

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

Add something like this to your service configuration:

```
app.entity_attacher:
        class: GeoSocio\EntityAttacher\EntityAttacher
        arguments:
            - '@doctrine.orm.entity_manager'
            - '@annotations.reader'
```

You may also need to add the `GeoSocio\EntityAttacher\Annotation\Attach`annotation to your annotation reader.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Add the `@Attach` annotation to the relationships that *should* be attached.

```
/**
 * @ORM\Entity()
 * @ORM\Table(name="post")
 */
class Post
{

    /**
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="GeoSocio\Core\Entity\User\User")
     * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="user_id", referencedColumnName="user_id")
     * @Attach()
     */
    private $user;
}
```

Then when a new `Post` is created, you can attach the entity:

```
$post = $this->attacher->attach($post);
```

Doing this will retrieve the `$user` from the database and prevent the `A new entity was found through the relationship` error. If you still receive that error, it means the `$user` was not found (and thus, should be persisted).

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