Add section on EntityRepository into Getting Started Tutorial.

en/tutorials/getting-started-xml-edition.rst

@@ -1151,13 +1151,154 @@ entity is scheduled for an UPDATE against the database. Only the
 changed columns are updated, which offers a pretty good performance
 improvement compared to updating all the properties.
 
+Entity Repositories
+-------------------
+
+For now we have not discussed how to separate the Doctrine query logic from your model.
+In Doctrine 1 there was the concept of ``Doctrine_Table`` instances for this
+seperation. The similar concept in Doctrine2 is called Entity Repositories, integrating
+the `repository pattern <http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/repository.html>`_ at the heart of Doctrine.
+
+Every Entity uses a default repository by default and offers a bunch of convenience
+methods that you can use to query for instances of that Entity. Take for example
+our Product entity. If we wanted to Query by name, we can use:
+
+.. code-block:: php
+
+    <?php
+    $product = $entityManager->getRepository('Product')
+                             ->findOneBy(array('name' => $productName));
+
+The method ``findOneBy()`` takes an array of fields or association keys and the values to match against.
+
+If you want to find all entities matching a condition you can use ``findBy()``, for
+example querying for all closed bugs:
+
+.. code-block:: php
+
+    <?php
+    $bugs = $entityManager->getRepository('Bug')
+                          ->findBy(array('status' => 'CLOSED'));
+
+    foreach ($bugs AS $bug) {
+        // do stuff
+    }
+
+Compared to DQL these query methods are falling short of functionality very fast.
+Doctrine offers you a convenient way to extend the functionalities of the default ``EntityRepository``
+and put all the specialized DQL query logic on it. For this you have to create a subclass
+of ``Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository``, in our case a ``BugRepository`` and group all
+the previoiusly discussed query functionality in it:
+
+.. code-block:: php
+
+    <?php
+
+    use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;
+
+    class BugRepository extends EntityRepository
+    {
+        public function getRecentBugs($number = 30)
+        {
+            $dql = "SELECT b, e, r FROM Bug b JOIN b.engineer e JOIN b.reporter r ORDER BY b.created DESC";
+
+            $query = $entityManager->createQuery($dql);
+            $query->setMaxResults($number);
+            return $query->getResult();
+        }
+
+        public function getRecentBugsArray($number = 30)
+        {
+            $dql = "SELECT b, e, r, p FROM Bug b JOIN b.engineer e ".
+                   "JOIN b.reporter r JOIN b.products p ORDER BY b.created DESC";
+            $query = $em->createQuery($dql);
+            $query->setMaxResults($number);
+            return $query->getArrayResult();
+        }
+
+        public function getUsersBugs($userId, $number = 15)
+        {
+            $dql = "SELECT b, e, r FROM Bug b JOIN b.engineer e JOIN b.reporter r ".
+                   "WHERE b.status = 'OPEN' AND e.id = ?1 OR r.id = ?1 ORDER BY b.created DESC";
+
+            return $entityManager->createQuery($dql)
+                                 ->setParameter(1, $userId)
+                                 ->setMaxResults($number)
+                                 ->getResult();
+        }
+
+        public function getOpenBugsByProduct()
+        {
+            $dql = "SELECT p.id, p.name, count(b.id) AS openBugs FROM Bug b ".
+                   "JOIN b.products p WHERE b.status = 'OPEN' GROUP BY p.id";
+            return $em->createQuery($dql)->getScalarResult();
+        }
+    }
+
+To be able to use this query logic through ``$entityManager->getRepository('Bug')``
+we have to adjust the metadata slightly.
+
+.. configuration-block::
+
+    .. code-block:: php
+
+        <?php
+        /**
+         * @Entity @Table(name="bugs", repositoryClass="BugRepository")
+         */
+        class Bug
+        {
+            //...
+        }
+
+    .. code-block:: xml
+
+        <doctrine-mapping xmlns="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping"
+              xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+              xsi:schemaLocation="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping
+                            http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping.xsd">
+
+              <entity name="Bug" table="bugs" entity-repository="BugRepository">
+
+              </entity>
+        </doctrine-mapping>
+
+    .. code-block:: yaml
+
+        Product:
+          type: entity
+          repositoryClass: BugRepository
+
+Now we can remove our query logic in all the places and instead use them through the EntityRepository.
+As an example here is the code of the first use case "List of Bugs":
+
+.. code-block:: php
+
+    <?php
+    $bugs = $entityManager->getRepository('Bug')->getRecentBugs();
+
+    foreach($bugs AS $bug) {
+        echo $bug->description." - ".$bug->created->format('d.m.Y')."\n";
+        echo "    Reported by: ".$bug->getReporter()->name."\n";
+        echo "    Assigned to: ".$bug->getEngineer()->name."\n";
+        foreach($bug->getProducts() AS $product) {
+            echo "    Platform: ".$product->name."\n";
+        }
+        echo "\n";
+    }
+
+Using EntityRepositories you can avoid coupling your model with specific query logic.
+You can also re-use query logic easily throughout your application.
+
+Conclusion
+----------
+
 This tutorial is over here, I hope you had fun. Additional content
 will be added to this tutorial incrementally, topics will include:
 
-* Entity Repositories
+-   More on Association Mappings
-* More on Association Mappings
+-   Lifecycle Events triggered in the UnitOfWork
-* Lifecycle Events triggered in the UnitOfWork
+-   Ordering of Collections
-* Ordering of Collections
 
 Additional details on all the topics discussed here can be found in
 the respective manual chapters.