Access child entity property from string - Twig / Symfony

Question

How can I access child entity property value in twig. Example :

This is wokring :

{% for entity in array %}
    {{ entity.child.child.prop1 }}
{% endfor %}

I wont to pass s string as param to get the same thing :

{% for entity in array %}
    {{ attribute(entity, "child.child.prop1") }}
{% endfor %}

But I get error :

Method "child.child.prop1" for object "CustomBundle\Entity\Entity1" does not exist...

Is there any way to do that?

Answer 1

You can write a custom twig extension with a function that uses the PropertyAccess component of symfony to retrieve the value. An example extension implementation can be Like:

<?php

use Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\PropertyAccess;

class PropertyAccessorExtension extends \Twig_Extension
{
    /** @var  PropertyAccess */
    protected $accessor;


    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->accessor = PropertyAccess::createPropertyAccessor();
    }

    public function getFunctions()
    {
        return array(
            new \Twig_SimpleFunction('getAttribute', array($this, 'getAttribute'))
        );
    }

    public function getAttribute($entity, $property) {
        return $this->accessor->getValue($entity, $property);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the name of the extension.
     *
     * @return string The extension name
     *
     */
    public function getName()
    {
        return 'property_accessor_extension';
    }
}

After registering this extension as service, you can then call

{% for entity in array %}
    {{ getAttribute(entity, "child.child.prop1") }}
{% endfor %}

Happy coding!