Symfony2 / Doctrine: one to one, embedded entity - php

Question

I'm starting the serious play with doctrine.
Among my current challenges, I have to build an entity which contains an address. Let's take an example.
class Address {
private $country;
private $street;
}
class Person {
private $name;
/**
* #var Address
*/
private $address;
}
What I want to achieve is to have only one table in database, with Address being embedded in Person. Something of the like:
create table Person {
name string(255),
street string(255),
country string(255)
}
I know this is possible with ORMs like Hibernate, and I wish I could have the same behaviour with Doctrine.
How can I have an embedded one-to-one relationship with Doctrine ?

Answer 1

Unfortunately Doctrine's ORM doesn't support embedded objects. The only soultion I found so far is to do the mapping on your own:
class Person {
...
protected $addressName;
protected $addressStreet;
protected $addressCountry;
public function getAddress() {
return new Address($this->addressName, $this->addressStreet, $this->addressCountry);
// or Address::create(...) if you wan't to have a simple constructor
}
public function setAddress(Address $address) {
$this->addressName = $address->getName();
$this->addressStreet = $address->getStreet();
$this->addressCountry = $address->getCountry();
}
...
}
It's quite a lot of repeated code, so you can think about moving it into separate trait.