References to embedded document collections

[Bilge]

I'm not sure if this is officially supported by Doctrine, since it is not documented, but it works - with an error notice.

For example, if I have documents A and B where document B has an embedded document, E, I can design the mapping as follows:

/** @Document */
class A {
    /** @ReferenceMany(targetDocument="B", mappedBy="foo.bar") */
    private $whatever = [];
}

/** @Document */
class B {
    /** @EmbedMany(targetDocument="E") */
    private $foo = [];
}

/** @EmbeddedDocument */
class E {
     /** @ReferenceOne(targetDocument="A", inversedBy="whatever") */
    private $bar;
}

However, reading A::$whatever generates the following notice:

Notice: Undefined index: foo.bar in mongodb-odm/lib/Doctrine/ODM/MongoDB/Persisters/DocumentPersister.php on line 709

Despite this, the document collection is retrieved correctly.

[Bilge]

This doesn't work if class B has a binary ID and $bar is a discriminator reference. I'm not sure what the culprit is here, but the symptomns are that count(A::$whatever) will never be > 1. That is, at most only one item is loaded into the collection on the field with an embedded document mapping.

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[Bilge]

Imagine thinking anyone cares about design flaws.

[alcaeus]

Imagine thinking anyone cares about Open Source being a joint effort.