Doctrine2 ArrayCollection

Question

Ok, I have a User entity as follows

Answer 1

This is not yet possible in a "domain driven" way, ie. just using objects. You should execute a query to check for the existance:

SELECT count(u.id) FROM User u WHERE ?1 IN u.urls AND u.id = ?2

With Doctrine 2.1 this will be possible using a combination of two new features:

1. Extra Lazy Collections
2. @IndexBy for collections, so you would define @OneToMany(targetEntity="Url", indexBy="location")
3. ExtraLazy Collection Support for index by using ->contains().

Points 1 and 2 are already implemented in Doctrine 2 master, but 3 is still missing.

Answer 2

You should try using the exists method on the collection and manually compare values.