Doctrine2 (Doctrine 2.1) eager loading in Symfony2
Solution 1
You're joining a table but you're not selecting anything from it. Add ->addSelect('a')
to your query builder. Consider two following SQL queries to understand the difference:
SELECT a.id, a.title
FROM article a
JOIN category c ON a.category_id = c.id
WHERE a.id = 123;
SELECT a.id, a.title, c.id, c.name
FROM article a
JOIN category c ON a.category_id = c.id
WHERE a.id = 123;
Eager/lazy joining has nothing to do with DQL queries. It defines what should be loaded when you use $articleRepository->find(123)
.
Solution 2
In the part where you try to "force eager loading" the problem might be that you use the fetchMode
method with the wrong variable type for the $fetchMode
argument. You pass a string 'EAGER'
but the method doesn't expect a string but an integer.
The method expects constants from the ClassMetadata
class:
/**
* Specifies that an association is to be fetched when it is first accessed.
*/
const FETCH_LAZY = 2;
/**
* Specifies that an association is to be fetched when the owner of the
* association is fetched.
*/
const FETCH_EAGER = 3;
In the Doctrine documentation chapter 14.7.6.6. Temporarily change fetch mode in DQL you can see an example on how to use this:
$query->setFetchMode("MyProject\User", "address", \Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ClassMetadata::FETCH_EAGER);
So pass either a reference to the constant or an integer that corresponds to the mode you want to use.
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Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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Guillaume Flandre almost 2 years
Let's say I have two entities in my Symfony2 project :
Category
andArticle
(a category having many articles).In my
CategoryRepository
, I have this method:findAllDummy(){ return $this->createQueryBuilder('c') ->leftJoin('c.Articles a') ->getQuery()->getResult(); }
If I remember well, in Symfony1.4 (and the corresponding version of Doctrine), the returned objects would have their 'articles' attribute filled by the corresponding
Article
objects. Now, in Symfony2, Proxy objects are returned.So if I loop through a specific category's articles, As many queries as iterations will be executed.
foreach($category->getArticles() as $article){ echo $article->getDoctrine() ->getRepository('')getTitle(); }
I understand this is Doctrine2.1's default lazy loading behavior.
Question 1: how is this a better solution? N queries instead of 1.
I tried to force eager loading by doing the following:
findAllDummy(){ return $this->createQueryBuilder('c') ->leftJoin('c.articles a') ->getQuery() ->setFetchMode('Category', 'articles', 'EAGER') ->getResult(); }
But the result remains the same.
Question 2: how to force eager loading in Doctrine2?
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Sam Selikoff almost 11 years@Crozin I'm still a little confused...when you say "it defines what should be loaded", are you referring to what is hydrated?
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Crozin almost 11 years@SamSelikoff Yes, if you define
fetch=EAGER
on articles' relation, all articles will be loaded (and hydrated) when you callcategoryRepository->findOne(321)
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Sam Selikoff almost 11 yearsWhat's the difference between loading and hydrating?
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Crozin almost 11 years@SamSelikoff There is non in this context. Treat these two words as synonyms.
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Sam Selikoff almost 11 yearsHmm. So either of the two queries in your answer could be eagerly or lazily loaded?
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Crozin almost 11 years@SamSelikoff Yes, you can decide whether you want to load something eagerly or lazily in both, DQL and the
EntityManager::find*()
. You just need to use different "tools":->addSelect(...)
in DQL andfetch="EAGER"
inem->find()
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Ryall over 9 years@Crozin It should be
fetch="EAGER"
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Sithu over 8 yearsIf we have
join
andselect
, we don't needsetFetchMode()
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DrKey almost 7 yearsyou saved my day :)