Receiving parents (or at least their IDs)

[intellix]

So I have a User like so:

/**
 * @ODM\Document
 */
class User
{
    /**
     * @ODM\Id
     */
    private $id;

    /**
     * @ODM\ReferenceMany(targetDocument="Db\Document\Message", mappedBy="sentBy")
     */
    private $messagesSent;

    /**
     * @ODM\ReferenceMany(targetDocument="Db\Document\Message", mappedBy="receivedBy")
     */
    private $messagesReceived;
}

Who can send and receive messages, which are referencing one another using DbRef:

/** 
 * @ODM\Document
 */
class Message
{
    /** @ODM\Id */
    private $id;

    /** @ODM\Field(type="date") */
    private $dateTimeSent;

    /** @ODM\Field(type="string") */
    private $text;

    /** @ODM\ReferenceOne(targetDocument="Db\Document\User", inversedBy="messagesSent") */
    private $sentBy;

    /** @ODM\ReferenceOne(targetDocument="Db\Document\User", inversedBy="messagesReceived") */
    private $receivedBy;
}

The issue I'm having is that when I grab messages or a single message, the sentBy and receivedBy are both NULL in the rest response. The data is there and linking correctly as if I can get it lazily using regular doctrine like: $message->getSentBy()->getId()

Looking at the Hydrator strategies I can see that CollectionExtract is for displaying an embedded list of child nodes and I'm thinking CollectionLink should be for the other way around (referencing the parent), but it's always NULL.

My config looks like:

'zf-hal' => array(
    'metadata_map' => array(
        'Db\\Document\\User' => array(
            'route_identifier_name' => 'user_id',
            'entity_identifier_name' => 'id',
            'route_name' => 'scanner.rest.user',
            'hydrator' => 'Db\\Document\\UserHydrator',
        ),
        'Db\\Document\\Message' => array(
            'route_identifier_name' => 'message_id',
            'entity_identifier_name' => 'id',
            'route_name' => 'scanner.rest.message',
            'hydrator' => 'Db\\Document\\MessageHydrator',
        ),
    ),
),
'zf-rest-doctrine-hydrator' => array(
    'Db\\Document\\UserHydrator' => array(
        'entity_class' => 'Db\\Document\\User',
        'object_manager' => 'doctrine.documentmanager.odm_default',
        'by_value' => false,
        'strategies' => array(
            'messagesSent' => 'ZF\\Apigility\\Doctrine\\Server\\Hydrator\\Strategy\\CollectionExtract',
            'messagesReceived' => 'ZF\\Apigility\\Doctrine\\Server\\Hydrator\\Strategy\\CollectionExtract',
        )
    ),
    'Db\\Document\\MessageHydrator' => array(
        'entity_class' => 'Db\\Document\\Message',
        'object_manager' => 'doctrine.documentmanager.odm_default',
        'by_value' => false,
        'strategies' => array(
            'sentBy' => 'ZF\\Apigility\\Doctrine\\Server\\Hydrator\\Strategy\\CollectionLink',
            'receivedBy' => 'ZF\\Apigility\\Doctrine\\Server\\Hydrator\\Strategy\\CollectionLink',
        ),
    ),
),
'zf-rest-doctrine-resource' => array(
    'Scanner\\V1\\Rest\\User\\UserResource' => array(
        'object_manager' => 'doctrine.documentmanager.odm_default',
        'hydrator' => 'Db\\Document\\UserHydrator',
    ),
    'Scanner\\V1\\Rest\\Message\\MessageResource' => array(
        'object_manager' => 'doctrine.documentmanager.odm_default',
        'hydrator' => 'Db\\Document\\MessageHydrator',
    ),
),

Should I be providing somehting more than just /api/messages to get the parent's IDs or should they just be there? If I dump the response from the ObjectManager get('Entity', $id) the IDs are null, but they're treated as though they're lazy so you have to get it manually.

[TomHAnderson]

@intellix What's the status of this? Can you give an update using the latest code?

[TomHAnderson]

Any movement on this @intellix or can I close this?