Im playing around with Symfony2 and Im abit unsure how Symfony2 handles Polymorphic collections in the View component. It seems that i can create an entity with a collection of AbstractChildren, but not sure how to what to do with it inside a Form Type class.
For example, I have the following entity relationship.
/**
* @ORM\Entity
*/
class Order
{
/**
* @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="AbstractOrderItem", mappedBy="order", cascade={"all"}, orphanRemoval=true)
*
* @var AbstractOrderItem $items;
*/
$orderItems;
...
}
/**
* Base class for order items to be added to an Order
*
* @ORM\Entity
* @ORM\InheritanceType("JOINED")
* @ORM\DiscriminatorColumn(name="discr", type="string")
* @ORM\DiscriminatorMap({
* "ProductOrderItem" = "ProductOrderItem",
* "SubscriptionOrderItem " = "SubscriptionOrderItem "
* })
*/
class AbstractOrderItem
{
$id;
...
}
/**
* @ORM\Entity
*/
class ProductOrderItem extends AbstractOrderItem
{
$productName;
}
/**
* @ORM\Entity
*/
class SubscriptionOrderItem extends AbstractOrderItem
{
$duration;
$startDate;
...
}
Simple enough, but when im create a form for my order class
class OrderType extends AbstractType
{
public function buildForm(FormBuilder $builder, array $options)
{
$builder->add('items', 'collection', array('type' => AbstractOrderItemType()));
}
}
I am unsure how to handle this situation where you effectively need a different Form Type for each class of item in the collection?