Doctrine自引用实体关系会引发错误

时间:2014-01-28 08:02:33

标签: doctrine-orm entity-relationship self-reference

我在Doctrine中有一个自引用实体,但是当我试图坚持它时,我一直收到以下错误:

PHP Catchable fatal error:  Object of class Category could not be converted to string in vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Statement.php on line 165

示例:

$category1 = new Category();
$category1->setName("Foo");
$category1->setParent( NULL );

$category2 = new Category();
$category2->setName("Bar");
$category2->setParent( $category1 );

$manager->persist( $category1 );
$manager->persist( $category2 );

$manager->flush();

我的实体看起来像这样:

/**
 * @ORM\Table(name="categories")
 * @ORM\Entity
 */
class Category {

    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     */
    protected $id;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=64, unique=true)
     */
    protected $name;

    /**
     * @ORM\Column(nullable=true)
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Category", inversedBy="children")
     * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="parent_id", referencedColumnName="id")
     */
    protected $parent;

    /**
     * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Category", mappedBy="parent")
     */
    protected $children;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->children = new ArrayCollection();
    }

    public function getId()
    {
        return $this->id;
    }

    public function getName()
    {
        return $this->name;
    }

    public function setName( $name )
    {
        $this->name = $name;

        return $this;
    }

    public function getParent()
    {
        return $this->parent;
    }

    public function setParent( Category $parent = NULL )
    {
        $this->parent = $parent;

        return $this;
    }

    public function getChildren()
    {
        return $this->children;
    }

    public function setChildren( ArrayCollection $children )
    {
        $this->children = $children;

        return $this;
    }

}

我使用Google搜索并将我的代码与其他示例进行比较,但我似乎无法发现问题。我显然忽略了什么,但是什么?

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:3)

尝试使用

/**
 * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Category", inversedBy="children")
 * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="parent_id", referencedColumnName="id", nullable=true)
 */
protected $parent;

但我还建议您在父列上设置 onDelete =“SET NULL”,如下所示:

/**
 * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Category", inversedBy="children")
 * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="parent_id", referencedColumnName="id", onDelete="SET NULL")
 */
public $parent;

我知道这不是问题的一部分,但你可能会在不久的将来需要它。如果您希望 children 列按照用户可以选择的顺序为您提供类别,您可能需要添加名为 order 的整数列并定义 children 像这样:

/**
 * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Category", mappedBy="parent")
 * @ORM\OrderBy({"order" = "ASC"})
 */
public $children;