How to use entityManager inside Entity?

Question

I have this function in Entity class but the getDoctrine do not fond...

public function getObject()
{
    $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();

    switch($this->objectType)
    {
        case 'video':
            return $em->getRepository('fdj2012AdminBundle:Video')->find($this->objectId);
            break;
        case 'default':
            return false;
            break;
    }
}

How to use entityManager inside my Entity ?

Answer 1

Actually Entity shouldn't know about EM. I use Event Listeners if I need advance logic in my Entity. When you register Listeners like services you can pass args there, like a EM or Container and get them inside Listener class.

Symfony Doc

But I know not really good way to get EM inside Entity class. By taking global variable Kernel in Entity methods.

global $kernel;
if ( 'AppCache' == get_class($kernel) )
{
   $kernel = $kernel->getKernel();
}
$em = $kernel->getContainer()->get( 'doctrine.orm.entity_manager' );

Shame on me :(

Answer 2

In services.yml add this

access_manager:
  class: AppBundle\Services\EntityManager
  arguments: [ @service_container ]

In Manager-

private $_container;


public function __construct(ContainerInterface $container)
{
    $this->_container = $container;
}

To access manager-

        $entity2Manager = $this->_container->get('entity2_manager');