Symfony: Dynamic route for multiple entities - php

Question

Currently working with Symfony 5.2
I am trying to create a dynamic route for multiple enties which have mostly same properties (some still have other fields too, but all have the same default properties).
Example (minified)
Entity News:
- id, title, author
Entity Event:
- id, title, author
I am now trying to create a dynamic route to fetch News or Events from my the repository.
class ContentController extends AbstractController {
/**
* #Route("/{type}", name="get_content")
*/
public function get(string $type) { //type is the name of the entity e.g. 'news' or 'event'
//fetch from repo
$results = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository(/* entity class */)->findAll();
}
}
I already came up with some ideas, but not sure if they are good practise.
1) use full namespace for the entity (how do I check if the class exists? error handling?)
$results = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('App\\Entity\\News')->findAll();
$results = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('App\\Entity\\' . ucfirst($type))->findAll();
2) provide a route for each entity and call a generic function (not exactly what I want because I have like 10+ entities for this)
class ContentController extends AbstractController {
/**
* #Route("/news", name="get_news")
*/
public function get_news() {
$results = getContent(News::class);
}
/**
* #Route("/event", name="get_event")
*/
public function get_event() {
$results = getContent(Event::class);
}
public function getContent($class) {
return $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository($class)->findAll();
}
}
Mabye some of you have better ideas/improvements and can help me out a bit.

Answer 1

You can define available for fetching entities manually.
class ContentController extends AbstractController
{
/**
* #Route("/{type}", name="get_content")
*/
public function get(string $type)
{ //type is the name of the entity e.g. 'news' or 'event'
//fetch from repo
$results = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository($this->getEntityClassFromType($type))->findAll();
}
private function getEntityClassFromType(string $type): string
{
//define your entities manually
foreach ([News::class, Event::class] as $class) {
$parts = explode('\\', $class);
$entity = array_pop($parts);
if ($type === lcfirst($entity)) {
return $class;
}
}
throw new NotFoundHttpException();
}
}
Or check your entities dynamically using $entityManager->getMetadataFactory()->hasMetadataFor($className);