Can I access discriminator field from php in doctrine2?

Question

I have an entity which defines inheritance like this:

* @DiscriminatorColumn(name=\"type\", type=\"string\")
* @DiscriminatorMap({\"text\" = \"TextAttribute\         


        

Answer 1

My approach is to simply access it's value through the meta data doctrine generates

$cmf = $em->getMetadataFactory();
$meta = $cmf->getMetadataFor($class);
$meta->discriminatorValue

will give you the value, so as a method

public static function get_type()
{
    //...get the $em instance 
    $cmf = $em->getMetadataFactory();
    $meta = $cmf->getMetadataFor(__CLASS__);
    return $meta->discriminatorValue;
}

I cache the metadata in a static variable for each class that extends my base entity, there is a lot of other useful information in there as well ...