DDD - the rule that Entities can't access Repositories directly

Question

In Domain Driven Design, there seems to be lots of agreement that Entities should not access Repositories directly.

Did this come from Eric Evans Domain Driven Desi

Answer 1

In the ideal world , DDD proposes that Entities should not have reference to data layers. but we do not live in ideal world. Domains may need to refer to other domain objects for business logic with whom they might not have a dependency. It is logical for entities to refer to repository layer for read only purpose, to fetch the values.