How to JOIN without a relationship in Doctrine? - php

Question

I have an entity Log (table log) with members resourceType and resourceId (with columns resource_log and resource_id). The resourceType can e.g. Order (for actions on orders, e.g. status changes ) or Whatever (for Whatever related actions). There is no relationships (neither in Doctrine, nor in the database) between the Log and the "resource" entities/tables.
Now I want to select only the Logs, that are related to Orders with myOrderProperty = "someValue". That means:
SELECT
*
FROM
`log`
JOIN
`order` ON `order`.`id` = `log`.`resource_id` AND `log`.`resource_type` = 'order'
WHERE
`order`.`my_order_property` LIKE '%my_order_property_value%'
But the code
$queryBuilder = $this->entityManager->createQueryBuilder();
$queryBuilder->select('l')->from(Log::class, 'l');
$queryBuilder->join('l.order', 'o');
...
$queryBuilder
->where('o.myOrderProperty = :myOrderProperty')
->setParameter('myOrderProperty', $myOrderProperty);
doesn't work, since the entity Log doesn't have any relationship with the Order (though it has a property order):
[Semantical Error] line 0, col 102 near 'o WHERE o.myOrderProperty': Error: Class MyNamespace\Log has no association named order
How to JOIN without a relationship defined between two entities?
I know, I could use inheritance. But semantically it's not an inheritance case. So is there another way for solving the problem?

Answer 1

The JOIN without relationship can be implemented like this:
$queryBuilder = $this->entityManager->createQueryBuilder();
$queryBuilder->select('l')->from(Log::class, 'l');
$queryBuilder->join(
Order::class,
'o',
\Doctrine\ORM\Query\Expr\Join::WITH,
'o.id = l.resourceId'
);
...
$queryBuilder
->where('o.myOrderProperty = :myOrderProperty')
->setParameter('myOrderProperty', $myOrderProperty);
The only problem is, that the joined entities are not added to the main entity, so that $myLog->getOrder(...) returns null.