2.0 Ideas

[kbond]

@wouterj and I have been discussing some potential changes for 2.0. This is a list of potential ideas:

• Single flush per "user-land" create #37
• Rename ProxyRepository to RepositoryDecorator and mark internal ("proxy" is a bit of a misnomer - it is actually a "decorator")
• Remove Proxy and change Factory::create() to return the real doctrine entity. While the proxy idea is clever and sort of creates a "quasi" AR system for your entities, it can be confusing (to use and document)
• Move the AR helpers (save, refresh, delete) to the ModelFactory/RepositoryDecorator and some stand alone helper functions
• Investigate if ocramius/proxy-manager could be used for auto-refresh as this would be lost with removal of the Proxy
• Method names: $user = UserFactory::new()->create()->object() is unfortunate. The ->object() would be removed by removing the Proxy (above) but $user = UserFactory::new()->create() is still confusing... (solved in Remove "visual duplication" of ModelFactory::new()->create() #111)
• Auto-refresh proxy improvements #113
• ModelFactory::repository()/AnonymousFactory::repository() to return the "real" repository for the entity
• [RFC] "anonymous factory" change proposal #126
• Move reset env variables to config options (FOUNDRY_DISABLE_DATABASE_RESET, FOUNDRY_RESET_CONNECTIONS, FOUNDRY_RESET_OBJECT_MANAGERS)? [feat] [remove bundleless usge] use config instead of environment variables #320
• Remove bundless usage. This is a vestigial feature that likely only I'm using (with no reason I can't switch to using the bundle). I believe only allowing bundle config would drastically reduce complexity. Remove "bundleless" usage #319
• [BC BREAK] make ModelFactory::getClass() public and remove ModelFactory::getEntityClass()? See Only list entities which do not have factories #162 for details (specifically Only list entities which do not have factories #162 (comment))
• ODM Support (or at least make adding support for this easier)

[wouterj]

Method names: $user = UserFactory::new()->create()->object() is unfortunate. The ->object() would be removed by removing the Proxy (above) but $user = UserFactory::new()->create() is still confusing...

See #111 for a proposal to fix this

[nikophil]

Hello @kbond
sorry if it's not the correct place to ask kind of things

Are you willing to supportdoctrine/odm in the future version this library?

[wouterj]

@nikophil the library is written based on doctrine/persistence (with some specific features requiring doctrine/orm). So there is a theoretical chance that this bundle supports doctrine/odm already (but afaik, it has never been tested).

[nikophil]

Nice to here that, I'm gonna try that on a project of mine which uses mongo
I'm afraid it won't support embedded collections out of the box... I'll let you know

[nikophil]

all of the subjects raised here have been addressed