Doctrine 2: how to clone all values from one object onto another except ID?

Question

In $entity variable, there is an object of same type as $other_address, but with all field values filled in.

I want to set all fields in $other_address object to hav

Answer 1

$A = $em->find('Some\Entity',1);

$B = clone $A;
$em->persist($B);
$em->flush();

if you merge it will update the entity, best you use persist() it will duplicate the entire row and add auto incremented primary key

Answer 2

Just Clone the entity, you don't even need to unset the id. Doctrine has tackled this for you

Answer 3

I'm not sure why cloning won't work.

This seems to work for me, at least in a basic test case:

$A = $em->find('Some\Entity',1);

$B = clone $A;
$B->setId(null);

If you've got relationships to worry about, you might want to safely implement __clone so it does what you want it to do with related entities.