Get service container from entity in symfony 2.1 (Doctrine) - php

Question

How to use entity as service in doctrine (Using Symfony 2.1).
Example usage:
<?php
namespace MyNamespace;
class MyEntity
{
protected $container = NULL;
public function __construct($container)
{
$this->container = $container;
}
/**
* #ORM\PrePersist
*/
public function()
{
// Must call to container and get any parameters
// for defaults sets entity parameters
$this->container->get('service.name');
}
}
As a result, I need to get access to the entire container.

Answer 1

EDIT: THIS IS NOT THE PREFERRED WAY, it's the only way to get service container inside an entity, it's not a good practice, it should be avoided, but this just answers the question.
In case you still want the container and/or repository you can extend a base abastractEntity like this:
<?php
namespace Acme\CoreBundle\Entity;
/**
* Abstract Entity
*/
abstract class AbstractEntity
{
/**
* Return the actual entity repository
*
* #return entity repository or null
*/
protected function getRepository()
{
global $kernel;
if ('AppCache' == get_class($kernel)) {
$kernel = $kernel->getKernel();
}
$annotationReader = $kernel->getContainer()->get('annotation_reader');
$object = new \ReflectionObject($this);
if ($configuration = $annotationReader->getClassAnnotation($object, 'Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\Entity')) {
if (!is_null($configuration->repositoryClass)) {
$repository = $kernel->getContainer()->get('doctrine.orm.entity_manager')->getRepository(get_class($this));
return $repository;
}
}
return null;
}
}

Answer 2

An entity is a data model and should only hold data (and not have any dependencies on services). If you want to modify your model in case of a certain event (PrePersist in your case) you should look into making a Doctrine listener for that. You can inject the container when defining the listener:
services:
my.listener:
class: Acme\SearchBundle\Listener\YourListener
arguments: [#your_service_dependency_or_the_container_here]
tags:
- { name: doctrine.event_listener, event: prePersist }