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

If you first used $em->getReference and then $em->find, then the result will be a _proxy. I recommend using:

 createQueryBuilder ... ->getQuery()
    ->setHint (Query::HINT_FORCE_PARTIAL_LOAD, true)
    ->getOneOrNullResult();