cross posted your last posting, but you are correct there.

On Thursday, 20 March 2014 22:00:07 UTC+1, Herman Peeren wrote:
>
> You have one Product for every X. So you have to add that Product to the 
> X. You would probably call that property of X $product. When you want to 
> know which Product that X has, you do $specificX->getProduct(). If you also 
> want to know what Info you have for that X you do a 
> $specificX->getProduct()->getInfo(). If you immediately want to gt the Info 
> for that X, you define a getInfo() method in X which retrieves 
> $this->getProduct()->getInfo(). No need to define the association of Info 
> directly to X. But if you realy want to define that relation, then it is 
> possible too of course: just define a $info property in X. No problem that 
> is uses the same foreign key. But redundant, as said.
>
> Probably easier to not talk about X, but give it a proper name. That makes 
> reasoning about your model easier. And maybe I just got the 
> ManyToOne/OneToMany the other way around, but the principle stays the same: 
> when you have an association with a Product, you can find the Info of that 
> Product too. Whether or not to eager or lazy load depends on how you need  
> the information; that is for later, when optimising the database-access. 
> First build a model and forget about the database. That is my advice. 
>
> I'm out, go to a conference and be back next week (which is very busy 
> too). So I won't react the coming week or so. Nothing personal.
>
> On Thursday, 20 March 2014 21:35:32 UTC+1, Parsifal wrote:
>>
>> Please read my previous reply first. By eager load do you mean I should 
>> run DQL instead of find()? If yes, then how can I have the result as object 
>> since doctrine require to have Product entity as object that I can add a 
>> new record to X, as I cannot simply use:
>> $this->productId = $blah;
>> Should I use that object hydrator?
>> So if I understood you correcly to solve this error I should use DQL 
>> joining Product-Info entities with that particular hydrator that returns 
>> the result as object? Is it the only way to solve the error however I don't 
>> need Info while adding a new row to db, the problem is that the same entity 
>> is used as ManyToOne to other two entities.
>>  
>

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