How to JOIN without relational table in Symfony Doctrine with QueryBuilder between 2 entities
Solution 1
Ok, solved, the problem was that the Entities isn't fully mapped for ManyToMany bidirectional relationship.
The Entities are now:
class Video
{
/**
* @var ArrayCollection
*
* @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="Acme\CategoryBundle\Entity\Category", inversedBy="video") // Note the inversedBy key
*/
private $category;
}
class Category
{
/**
* @var Video
*
* @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="Acme\VideoBundle\Entity\Video", mappedBy="category") // Again the inversed
*/
private $video; // New field for bidirectional ManyToMany
}
And the final QueryBuilder working (now with full alias version :P):
$queryBuilder = $this->getEntityManager()
->createQueryBuilder()
->select('category')
->from('AcmeCategoryBundle:Category', 'category')
->join('category.video', 'video')
->groupBy('category.id')
->having('COUNT(video.id) > 1000')
->orderBy('category.name', 'ASC')
->getQuery();
Best regards
Solution 2
// Can Doctrine join itself silently with relational info in the Entities?
->join('AcmeCategoryBundle:Category', 'c', Expr\Join::WITH, 'v.id = c.id')
Yes! In fact that is one of the major reasons for using an ORM such as Doctrine 2.
Try:
->leftJoin('v.category','c')
The manual goes into more details though oddly enough is does not seem to have a join example. Hence the common confusion.
http://docs.doctrine-project.org/en/latest/reference/query-builder.html
And you may not be aware of this but the United Nations has passed a resolution outlawing the use of abbreviations for aliases. Just to be safe, try:
$queryBuilder = $this->getEntityManager()
->createQueryBuilder()
->addSelect('category')
->from('AcmeVideoBundle:Video', 'video')
->leftJoin('video.category', 'category')
->groupBy('category.id')
->having('COUNT(video.id) > 1000')
->orderBy('category.name', 'ASC')
->getQuery();
Tecnocat
Updated on March 22, 2020Comments
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Tecnocat about 4 years
I have an Entity Video related with a Entity Category and I need to run this SQL with Doctrine QueryBuilder, with this I can get the most used categories in all videos (1000+):
SELECT c.* FROM Video v INNER JOIN video_category vc ON vc.video_id = v.id INNER JOIN Category c ON vc.category_id = c.id GROUP BY c.id HAVING COUNT(v.id) > 1000 ORDER BY c.name ASC;
My querybuilder:
$queryBuilder = $this->getEntityManager() ->createQueryBuilder() ->select('c') ->from('AcmeVideoBundle:Video', 'v') // Can Doctrine join itself silently with relational info in the Entities? ->join('AcmeCategoryBundle:Category', 'c', Expr\Join::WITH, 'v.id = c.id') ->groupBy('c.id') ->having('COUNT(v.id) > 1000') ->orderBy('c.name', 'ASC') ->getQuery();
But the SQL query output by queryBuilder is this:
SELECT c0_.id AS id0, c0_.NAME AS name1 FROM Video v1_ INNER JOIN Category c0_ ON (v1_.id = c0_.id) GROUP BY c0_.id HAVING COUNT(v1_.id) > 1000 ORDER BY c0_.NAME ASC
Without the relational table (video_category)
The Entities mapping:
/** * Video * * @ORM\Table * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Acme\VideoBundle\Entity\VideoRepository") */ class Video { /** * @ORM\Id * @ORM\Column(type="integer") * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO") */ private $id; /** * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="Acme\CategoryBundle\Entity\Category", cascade={"persist"}) */ private $category; // More fields, getters and setters etc... } /** * Category * * @ORM\Table * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Acme\CategoryBundle\Entity\CategoryRepository") */ class Category { /** * @ORM\Id * @ORM\Column(type="integer") * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO") */ private $id; /** * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=255) */ private $name; // More fields, getters and setters etc... }
How can I use the relation table to run the original SQL query with doctrine Querybuilder? I missed something?
INFO: When I findBy{field}, persist, flush, clear on all entities works fine, the Doctrine relations are ok, I have a Video, Category and video_category tables fine, the original SQL query works perfect.
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Tecnocat over 10 yearsI love it the full name for alias, I put the short version for clarify the example in StackOverflow, is good known the people with the same point of view! In last hours I got this same Exception with other combination of ->select() and ->join() / innerJoin(): [Semantical Error] line 0, col -1 near 'SELECT category': Error: Cannot select entity through identification variables without choosing at least one root entity alias. I used your answered code :/