Trigger Doctrine lifecycle events in my code

Question

Question: how to trigger Doctrine lifecycle events in my code, having the entity data available?

Details

• I have an active listener on the Doctrine postPersist and postUpdate events.
• I cannot modify / override this listener.
• In some places in my code, for performance reasons, I use DBAL to save data instead of ORM methods.
• I'd like to stick to the same event system.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Extending @Cerad answer, here's a very basic sample code to achieve the result (trigger a Doctrine LifeCycle event). This sample assumes we're in a Symfony controller:

use Doctrine\ORM\Event\LifecycleEventArgs;
// ...
$user = new AppBundle\Entity\User();
// ... do something with the user
$entityManager = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$eventManager = $entityManager->getEventManager();
$eventArgs = new LifecycleEventArgs($user, $entityManager);
$eventManager->dispatchEvent(\Doctrine\ORM\Events::postPersist, $eventArgs);

Answer 2

Assuming you have access to the entity manager then:

$eventManager = $entityManager->getEventManager();

After that you can build and dispatch events per the documentation.

I checked to see if there is a predefined service but did not see one. But you probably define one as a factory and inject it as needed.

Hope this is what you are asking for.