CASTING attributes for Ordering on a Doctrine2 DQL Query

Question

I am trying to get Doctrine2 Entities, ordered by their ID which apparently is a String even though it contains only Numbers. So what I would like to do is

Answer 1

Try this one by with out changing the data type

  select (entity1 * 1) as display_value, entity1 as return_value 
      from Table_Name
     order by 1 asc;