Doctrine2 ArrayCollection
- by boosis
Ok, I have a User entity as follows
<?php
class User
{
/**
* @var integer
* @Id
* @Column(type="integer")
* @GeneratedValue
*/
protected $id;
/**
* @var \Application\Entity\Url[]
* @OneToMany(targetEntity="Url", mappedBy="user", cascade={"persist", "remove"})
*/
protected $urls;
public function __construct()
{
$this->urls = new \Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection();
}
public function addUrl($url)
{
// This is where I have a problem
}
}
Now, what I want to do is check if the User has already the $url in the $urls ArrayCollection before persisting the $url.
Now some of the examples I found says we should do something like
if (!$this->getUrls()->contains($url)) {
// add url
}
but this doesn't work as this compares the element values. As the $url doesn't have id value yet, this will always fail and $url will be dublicated.
So I'd really appreciate if someone could explain how I can add an element to the ArrayCollection without persisting it and avoiding the duplication?
Edit
I have managed to achive this via
$p = function ($key, $element) use ($url)
{
if ($element->getUrlHash() == $url->getUrlHash()) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
};
But doesn't this still load all urls and then performs the check? I don't think this is efficient as there might be thousands of urls per user.
