Fetch entity without related objects doctrine

Question

I have the following classes:

class Category {

    /**
    * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Product", mappedBy="category")
    */
    private $products;

    ...
}

class Product {

    ...

    /**
    * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Category", inversedBy="products")
    * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="category_id", referencedColumnName="id")
    */
    private $category;

    ...

}

when i try to fetch one product from my db like this:

    $query = $doctrineManager->createQuery(
        "
SELECT p FROM AppBundle:Product p
WHERE p.id = :id
        "
    )->setParameter('id', $id);

    $result = $query->getSingleResult();

i get not only my product , but also get category with all products (except the one i found). So, how can i fetch only model what i want without any related model?

Answer 1

They are just stubs, you don't actually fetch any related entity information unless you are using fetch=EAGER.

This answer explains it pretty well.

What is the difference between fetch="EAGER" and fetch="LAZY" in doctrine

In summary, you can't get rid of the associations, but they don't load the other entities until you call the data unless you specifically request otherwise. So don't worry about it.