CASTING attributes for Ordering on a Doctrine2 DQL Query

Question

I am trying to get Doctrine2 Entities, ordered by their ID which apparently is a String even though it contains only Numbers. So what I would like to do is

Answer 1

Not sure if this works, but to access an entity ID you need the IDENTITY() DQL function. Try this:

SELECT entity1  FROM Namespace\Bla\MyEntity  ORDER BY IDENTITY(entity1)