I have an Author
entity, which is a Class Table Inheritance containing an AuthorUser
and an AuthorGroup
.
/**
* Author
*
* @ORM\Table
* @ORM\Entity
* @ORM\InheritanceType("JOINED")
* @ORM\DiscriminatorColumn(name="type", type="string")
* @ORM\DiscriminatorMap({"user" = "AuthorUser", "group" = "AuthorGroup"})
*/
class Author {
// ...
}
AuthorUser
relates to my User
entity and AuthorGroup
to my Group
entity.
class AuthorUser extends Author
{
/**
* @var User
*
* @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="User", inversedBy="?????")
* @ORM\JoinColumn(name="user_id", referencedColumnName="id")
*/
protected $user;
}
class AuthorGroup extends Author
{
/**
* @var Group
*
* @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Group", inversedBy="?????")
* @ORM\JoinColumn(name="group_id", referencedColumnName="id")
*/
protected $user;
}
I have no idea how to inverse this. Anyway, the problem is that i have to add this CTI to my Article
entity field. How can i relate using ManyToOne to this Article entity field?
class Article
{
/**
* @var Author
*
* @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Author", inversedBy="?????????")
* @ORM\JoinColumn(name="author_id", referencedColumnName="id")
*/
protected $author;
}
I'm not sure how to make this as transparent as possible. When i create a new Article
, i need to provide either an User
or Group
object to the author
field. I followed this behavior, but it doesn't seem to help. It gets even more complicated.