On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 09:35, Benjamin Morel <benjamin.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> apologies if I've missed it, but have you actually said what that use case >> is? > > > Sorry if it wasn't clear in my original post. The use case is the > following: > > - a data mapper retrieves an object from the database > - for optimization purposes, we can ask the data mapper to return a > partial object, with only a handful of properties initialized > - when saving the (potentially partial) entity to the database, the data > mapper needs to read initialized properties only > So this entire feature request is to support something which the Doctrine manual spends several paragraphs saying you should probably never use? I can see that it would be elegant if this function existed, but it seems a thin justification for adding it, when the whole problem could just be approached a different way - e.g.add a property to the model called $_partialFields that stores which fields were initialised. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]
