Getting a “true” object from a proxy object in doctrine2

Question

Doctrine uses proxy objects to represent related objects in order to facilitate lazy loading. This is a really cool feature, but its causing an issue with something I am trying

Answer 1

This is a little bit nasty workaround that issue :

// $proxyObject = ...

$em->detach($proxyObject);
$entityObject = $em->find(, $proxyObject->getId());

// now you have real entity and not the proxy (entityObject instead of proxyObject)

after that you can replace proxy reference if you need to have it inside other entities