Join subquery with doctrine 2 DBAL

Question

I'm refactoring a Zend Framework 2 application to use doctrine 2.5 DBAL instead of Zend_DB (ZF1). I have the following Zend_Db query:

$subSelect = $db->select()
    ->from('user_survey_status_entries', array('userSurveyID', 'timestamp' => 'MIN(timestamp)'))
    ->where('status = ?', UserSurveyStatus::ACCESSED)
    ->group('userSurveyID');


$select = $db->select()
    // $selectColNames contains columns both from the main query and 
    // the subquery (e.g. firstAccess.timestamp AS dateFirstAccess).
    ->from(array('us' => 'user_surveys'), $selectColNames)
    ->joinLeft(array('firstAccess' => $subSelect), 'us.userSurveyID = firstAccess.userSurveyID', array())
    ->where('us.surveyID = ?', $surveyID);

This results in the following MySQL query:

SELECT `us`.`userSurveyID`, 
    // More columns from main query `us`
    `firstAccess`.`timestamp` AS `dateFirstAccess`
FROM `user_surveys` AS `us`
LEFT JOIN (
    SELECT `user_survey_status_entries`.`userSurveyID`, 
            MIN(timestamp) AS `timestamp` 
    FROM `user_survey_status_entries` 
    WHERE (status = 20) 
    GROUP BY `userSurveyID`
) AS `firstAccess` ON us.userSurveyID = firstAccess.userSurveyID 
WHERE (us.surveyID = '10')

I can't figure out how to join the subquery using the doctrine 2.5 query builder. In the main query, I need to select columns from the subquery.

I have read here that doctrine does not support joining subqueries. If that's still true, can I write this query in another way using the SQL query builder of doctrine DBAL? Native SQL may not be a good solution for me, as this query will be dynamically extended later in the code.

Answer 1

To answer this part of your question:

I can't figure out how to join the subquery using the doctrine 2.5 query builder

You can make 2 query builder instances and use the DQL from the second one inside a clause of your first query. An example:

->where($qb->expr()->notIn('u.id', $qb2->getDQL())

Check examples here or here or find more using Google

Answer 2

I've found a solution by adapting this DQL example to DBAL. The trick is to get the raw SQL of the subquery, wrap it in brackets, and join it. Parameters used in the subquery must be set in the main query:

$subSelect = $connection->createQueryBuilder()
    ->select(array('userSurveyID', 'MIN(timestamp) timestamp'))
    ->from('user_survey_status_entries')
    // Instead of setting the parameter in the main query below, it could be quoted here:
    // ->where('status = ' . $connection->quote(UserSurveyStatus::ACCESSED))
    ->where('status = :status')
    ->groupBy('userSurveyID');

$select = $connection->createQueryBuilder()
    ->select($selectColNames)
    ->from('user_surveys', 'us')
    // Get raw subquery SQL and wrap in brackets.
    ->leftJoin('us', sprintf('(%s)', $subSelect->getSQL()), 'firstAccess', 'us.userSurveyID = firstAccess.userSurveyID')
    // Parameter used in subquery must be set in main query.
    ->setParameter('status', UserSurveyStatus::ACCESSED)
    ->where('us.surveyID = :surveyID')->setParameter('surveyID', $surveyID);