Adding BaseEntity::getRepository() method

README.md

@@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ named `getEntityManager()` (which uses a static property inherited from
 $em = User::getEntityManager();
 ```
 
+`BaseEntity` also offers a `getRepository()` method which will return the
+repository for the model (see the section *Fetching record* below.)
+
 ### Fetching records ###
 
 Once you have the entity manager, you can fetch a user with ID 1 (notice how
@@ -215,6 +218,13 @@ or using model repositories:
 $user = $em->getRepository('app\models\User')->findOneById(1);
 ```
 
+If your model extends from `BaseEntity`, then the above could be retwritten
+as:
+
+```php
+$user = User::getRepository()->findOneById(1);
+```
+
 If you want to find out more about querying models with Doctrine, go through
 its [Querying guide] [doctrine-querying-guide].
 

models/BaseEntity.php

@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ public function __construct() {
      * Get the entity manager linked to the connection defined in the property
      * `$connectionName`
      *
-     * @see BaseEntity::$validates
      * @return EntityManager entity manager
      */
     public static function getEntityManager() {
@@ -77,6 +76,15 @@ public static function getEntityManager() {
         return $entityManager;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Get the repository for this model
+     *
+     * @return EntityRepository entity manager
+     */
+    public static function getRepository() {
+        return static::getEntityManager()->getRepository(get_called_class());
+    }
+
     /**
      * Doctrine callback executed after a record was loaded
      *