Doctrine 2 and vertical partitioning - mysql

Question

I'm currently working on a project for which i have to deal with a lot of users fields (+/- 80). My first approach was (and still is) to vertically partition the user table in 4 tables : main informations, administrative informations, banking informations, statistics informations. The ids of the 3 extra tables rows refer to the auto incremented id of the main table.
My questions are :
Is it relevant to do so ?
It seems like, with the way i did the
association, Doctrine isn't able to flush one object into database
in one shot :
Entity of type MyVendor\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosBank is missing an
assigned ID for field 'id_user'. The identifier generation strategy
for this entity requires the ID field to be populated before
EntityManager#persist() is called. If you want automatically generated
identifiers instead you need to adjust the metadata mapping
accordingly.
The project will be pushed into production in 3 weeks, so we're still able to go back to a more traditionnal way to store these datas into one huge table…
****************UPDATE*****************
WHOLE CODE LOGIC BELOW*****************
I just removed most of the properties and methods which are not concerned by my problem…
And yes, i'm using FOSUserBundle ;)
UsersMain
<?php
namespace LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity;
use FOS\UserBundle\Model\GroupableInterface;
use FOS\UserBundle\Model\User as BaseUser;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
/**
* UsersMain
*
* #ORM\Table(name="lcp_users_main")
* #ORM\Entity
*/
class UsersMain extends BaseUser
{
/**
* #var integer
*
* #ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
*/
protected $id;
/**
*
* #ORM\OneToOne(targetEntity="LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosBank", mappedBy="id_user", cascade={"persist"})
*/
private $infosBank;
/**
*
* #ORM\OneToOne(targetEntity="LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersApodis", mappedBy="id_user", cascade={"persist"})
*/
private $apodis;
/**
*
* #ORM\OneToOne(targetEntity="LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosAdmin", mappedBy="id_user", cascade={"persist"})
*/
private $infosAdmin;
/**
*
* #ORM\OneToOne(targetEntity="LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosStats", mappedBy="id_user", cascade={"persist"})
*/
private $infosStats;
/**
* Constructor
*/
public function __construct()
{
$this->groups = new \Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection();
$this->creationDate = new \Datetime();
}
/**
* Set apodis
*
* #param \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersApodis $apodis
* #return UsersMain
*/
public function setApodis(\LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersApodis $apodis = null)
{
if(is_null($this->apodis) && is_null($apodis)){
$this->apodis = new \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersApodis();
} else {
$this->apodis = $infosBank;
}
$this->apodis->setIdUser($this);
return $this;
}
/**
* Get apodis
*
* #return \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersApodis
*/
public function getApodis()
{
if(is_null($this->infosAdmin)){
$this->infosAdmin = new \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersApodis();
}
return $this->apodis;
}
/**
* Set infosAdmin
*
* #param \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosAdmin $infosAdmin
* #return UsersMain
*/
public function setInfosAdmin(\LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosAdmin $infosAdmin = null)
{
if(is_null($this->infosAdmin) && is_null($infosAdmin)){
$this->infosAdmin = new \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosAdmin();
} else {
$this->infosAdmin = $infosAdmin;
}
$this->infosAdmin->setIdUser($this);
return $this;
}
/**
* Get infosAdmin
*
* #return \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosAdmin
*/
public function getInfosAdmin()
{
if(is_null($this->infosAdmin)){
$this->infosAdmin = new \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosAdmin();
}
return $this->infosAdmin;
}
/**
* Set infosStats
*
* #param \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosStats $infosStats
* #return UsersMain
*/
public function setInfosStats(\LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosStats $infosStats = null)
{
if(is_null($this->infosStats) && is_null($infosStats)){
$this->infosStats = new \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosStats();
} else {
$this->infosStats = $infosAdmin;
}
$this->infosStats->setIdUser($this);
return $this;
}
/**
* Get infosStats
*
* #return \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosStats
*/
public function getInfosStats()
{
if(is_null($this->infosStats)){
$this->infosStats = new \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosStats();
}
return $this->infosStats;
}
}
UsersInfosAdmin
<?php
namespace LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
/**
* UsersInfosAdmin
*
* #ORM\Table(name="lcp_users_infos_admin", indexes={#ORM\Index(name="pharmacyCip_idx", columns={"pharmacy_cip"})})
* #ORM\Entity
*/
class UsersInfosAdmin
{
/**
* #var integer
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\OneToOne(targetEntity="LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersMain", cascade={"persist"}, inversedBy="infosAdmin")
*/
private $id_user;
/**
* Set id_user
*
* #param \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersMain $idUser
* #return UsersInfosAdmin
*/
public function setIdUser(\LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersMain $idUser)
{
$this->id_user = $idUser;
return $this;
}
/**
* Get id_user
*
* #return \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersMain
*/
public function getIdUser()
{
return $this->id_user;
}
}
UsersInfosStats
<?php
namespace LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
/**
* UsersInfosStats
*
* #ORM\Table(name="lcp_users_infos_stats")
* #ORM\Entity
*/
class UsersInfosStats
{
/**
* #var integer
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\OneToOne(targetEntity="LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersMain", cascade={"persist"}, inversedBy="infosStats")
*/
private $id_user;
/**
* Set id_user
*
* #param \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersMain $idUser
* #return UsersInfosStats
*/
public function setIdUser(\LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersMain $idUser)
{
$this->id_user = $idUser;
return $this;
}
/**
* Get id_user
*
* #return \LCP\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersMain
*/
public function getIdUser()
{
return $this->id_user;
}
}
Here is how i create a user (it is through a secured admin area form) :
/**
* This action get the field from the form
*/
public function userSaveAction(Request $request)
{
$userManager = $this->get('fos_user.user_manager');
$this->request = $request;
$userValues = $this->getRequest()->request->all();
$this->em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
$user = $this->processUser($userValues);
$userManager->updateUser($user, false);
return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('lcp_admin_user_edit', ['id'=>$user->getId()]));
}
/**
* This method process user fields and uses setters (or getters for joined entities) to set datas of user
*/
private function processUser($userValues)
{
if($userValues['userId']=="") {
$user = $this->get('fos_user.user_manager')->createUser();
} else {
$user = $this->em->getRepository('LCPUserBundle:UsersMain')
->findOneBy(['id' => $userId]);
}
//construction of related entities
$user->setInfosAdmin();
$user->setInfosBank();
$user->setInfosStats();
$user->setApodis();
unset($userValues['userId']);
//this method inspect submitted field to check if they are mandatory or if current user is allowed to modify them
$this->fields = $this->getInfosFields();
foreach($userValues as $input=>$value){
list($entity,$input)=explode('-',$input);
if($input=='plainPassword' && $value==''){
continue;
}
if($entity=='Main'){
$setter = 'set'.ucfirst($input);
$user->$setter($value);
} else {
$setter = 'set'.ucfirst($input);
$join = 'get'.$entity;
$user->$join()->$setter($value);
}
}
return $user;
}

Answer 1

According to the comments your UsersMain property need to be like this:
/**
* Join administrative informations
* #ORM\OneToOne(targetEntity="MyVendor\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersInfosAdmin", mappedBy="userMain", cascade={"persist"}, orphanRemoval=true)
*/
private $infosAdmin;
/**
* Setter InfosAdmin
*/
public function setInfosAdmin(UsersInfosAdmin $infosAdmin)
{
$this->infosAdmin = $infosAdmin;
$this->infosAdmin->setUserMain($this); <--- add this to set userMain on associated object
return $this;
}
then your UsersInfosAdmin properties need to be like this:
/**
* #var integer
* #ORM\Id
* #ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
*/
private $id;
/**
* #ORM\OneToOne(targetEntity="MyVendor\User\UserBundle\Entity\UsersMain", inversedBy="userMain")
*/
private $userMain;