Is there a way to specify Doctrine2 Entitymanager implementation class in Symfony2?

Question

I\'m currently working with Symfony2 and Doctrine2, but I must override the Doctrine2 EntityManager and add it some \"undelete\" features (ACLs inside).

So I\'m wond

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible with two steps:

1 - Override the doctrine.orm.entity_manager.class parameter to point to your custom entity manager (which should extend Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager.)

2 - Your custom entity manager must override the create method so that it returns an instance of your class. See my example below, and note the last line regarding MyEntityManager:

public static function create($conn, Configuration $config, EventManager $eventManager = null) {
        if (!$config->getMetadataDriverImpl()) {
            throw ORMException::missingMappingDriverImpl();
        }

        if (is_array($conn)) {
            $conn = \Doctrine\DBAL\DriverManager::getConnection($conn, $config, ($eventManager ? : new EventManager()));
        } else if ($conn instanceof Connection) {
            if ($eventManager !== null && $conn->getEventManager() !== $eventManager) {
                throw ORMException::mismatchedEventManager();
            }
        } else {
            throw new \InvalidArgumentException("Invalid argument: " . $conn);
        }

        // This is where you return an instance of your custom class!
        return new MyEntityManager($conn, $config, $conn->getEventManager());
    }

You'll also need to use the following in your class:

use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager;
use Doctrine\ORM\Configuration;
use Doctrine\ORM\ORMException;
use Doctrine\Common\EventManager;
use Doctrine\DBAL\Connection;

To be honest, I'm surprised that the 2nd step is required at all, I would think this should be possible to accomplish using only the service container.