Extract the Namespace or Bundle Shortcut for a Symfony Entity

Question

I have a function that needs to know the bundle shortcut name for an entity that is passed in.

public function doSomething($entity) {
     $bundleShortcut = SOMEFUNCTION($entity);
     // ... do other stuff and return a value ...
}

I would love to have it return the bundle shortcut name of my entity:

GutensiteCmsBundle:ViewVersion

Is this possible? Does the entity manager have access to this metadata somehow?

I'm aware I could pre-register the name in all my entities:

class ViewVersion {
    protected $bundleName = 'GutensiteCmsBundle:ViewVersion';
    public function getBundleName() {
        return $this->bundleName;
    }
}

Then I can do:

$entity->getBundleName();

But that's lame.

SOLUTION

Based on @Chamlee's answer, this is the function I use:

public function getEntityBundleShortcut($entity) {
    // wrap in EntityManager's Class Metadata function avoid problems with cached proxy classes
    $path = explode('\Entity\\', $this->em->getClassMetadata(get_class($entity))->getName());
    return str_replace('\\', '', $path[0]).':'.$path[1];
}

So for the following entities here are the return values:

// Entity
Gutensite\ArticleBundle\Entity\Article
// Returns
GutensiteArticleBundle:Article


// Entity
Gutensite\CmsBundle\Entity\View\ViewVersion
// Returns
GutensiteArticleBundle:View\ViewVersion

Answer 1

Try looking at this :

$className = explode("\\", get_class($document));

It returns you an array with all you need ;) If you make and echo of the $className you'll see the structure and I think it could fit with your problem.