How to determine if a Doctrine entity is persisted?

Question

Is there a way to determine if a parameter is an object that is already persisted by Doctrine or not? Something like an entity manager method that checks that an object is not a plain old object but actually something already in memory/persisted.

<?php public function updateStatus(Entity $entity, EntityStatus $entityStatus) {     $entityManager = $this->getEntityManager();     try {         // checking persisted entity         if (!$entityManager->isPersisted($entity)) {              throw new InvalidArgumentException('Entity is not persisted');         }         // ...     } catch (InvalidArgumentException $e) {     } } 

Answer 1

EDIT: As said by @Andrew Atkinson, it seems

EntityManager->contains($entity) 

is the preferred way now.

Previous answer: You have to use UnitOfWork api like this:

$isPersisted = \Doctrine\ORM\UnitOfWork::STATE_MANAGED === $entityManager->getUnitOfWork()->getEntityState($entity); 

Answer 2

The EntityManager method contains serves this purpose. See the documentation (2.4).

In Doctrine 2.4, the implementation looks like this:

class EntityManager { // ... public function contains($entity) {     return $this->unitOfWork->isScheduledForInsert($entity)         || $this->unitOfWork->isInIdentityMap($entity)         && ! $this->unitOfWork->isScheduledForDelete($entity); }