Associative array of EmbedMany documents in Doctrine ODM

Question

I am trying to create an associative array of embedMany relationship with string keys for example I have a Document class named sampleDocument and it has an EmbedMany relationship on the field price .

this is how I am setting the price field with associative array with string keys:

$obj->setPrice(array('key1' => $priceObjOne, 'key2' => $priceObj2));

it insert that data into the mongo as follows:

{
  "prices": [
     {/*Price Object*/}, { /*Price Object*/ }
  ]
}

What I am trying to do is to have a string key for each one. it already has the string key in the array. but it doesn't insert it into the Mongo. how can I get passed it?

Answer 1

You need to define "prices" as @Hash type in your object. With “type” attribute set to “hash”, Doctrine will store and retrieve the value as an associative array:

<?php
class SampleDocument
{
    /** @Hash */
    protected $prices = array();
}