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

There's a slicker way to do it in PHP 5.3:

abstract Parent
{
    const TYPE = 'Parent';

    public static function get_type()
    {
        $c = get_called_class();
        return $c::TYPE;
    }
}

class Child_1 extends Parent
{
    const TYPE = 'Child Type #1';
    //..whatever
}

class Child_2 extends Parent
{
    const TYPE = 'Child Type #2';
    //...whatever
}