ZF2 Doctrine - 使用查询构建器如何指向存储库中的自定义方法

Question

I am struggling with this one and hope someone is able to help. Building a webapp using ZF2 and Doctrine I am trying to build a query using Doctrine's query builder making use of a custom method in my entity file. For simple example entity file as follows (shortened for clarity):

/**
 * Get firstName
 *
 * @return string 
 */
public function getFirstName()
{
    return $this->firstName;
}

/**
 * Get lastName
 *
 * @return string 
 */
public function getLastName()
{
    return $this->lastName;
}
public function getFullName()
{
    return $this->getFirstName() . ' ' . $this->getLastName();
}

So the first and last name are directly mapped to dB columns, getFullName is a custom method in the entity file. Then extending the entity with a custom repository for queries I would like to make use of the getFullName method. I have the following in the repository (which extends the entity file):

$qb = $this->_em->createQueryBuilder();
$qb->select('employee')
    ->from('Application\Entity\Employee', 'employee')
    ->andWhere('employee.fullName = :foo')
    ->setParameter('foo', 'Joe Bloggs');

$query = $qb->getQuery();

I was hoping in the andWhere statement it would translate the employee.fullName to find the getFullName method but it appears not. Does anyone have any ideas please?

Thank you James

Answer 1

The simple answer is: "You can not!". The getFullName method has nothing to do with doctrine, because it exists only in the model.

The easiest way to simulate what you want is to split the name into the parts and use it:

$fullName = 'Joe Bloggs';
list($firstName, $lastName) = explode(' ', $fullName);
$qb = $this->_em->createQueryBuilder();
$qb->select('employee')
    ->from('Application\Entity\Employee', 'employee')
    ->andWhere('employee.firstName = :first')
    ->andWhere('employee.lastName = :last')
    ->setParameter('first', $firstName)
    ->setParameter('last', $lastName);

$query = $qb->getQuery();