Symfony Doctrine order oneToMany by specific order - symfony

Question

I use Symfony 4, and I have a OneToMany relation. I want to order this relation by a specific order. For now, I order only by ASC :
/**
* #ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="App\Entity\Ingredients", mappedBy="product", fetch="EAGER")
* #ORM\OrderBy({"family" = "ASC"})
*/
private $ingredients;
It works perfectly.
Now I would like to order by a specific order : "vegetables", "fruits" then "meat".
I tried :
/**
* #ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="App\Entity\Ingredients", mappedBy="product", fetch="EAGER")
* #ORM\OrderBy({"family" = "vegetables, fruits, meat"})
*/
private $ingredients;
Which is of course doesn't work. Still trying, but is there an easy way to achieve it ?

Answer 1

As noted in https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/2.6/reference/annotations-reference.html#annref_orderby
The DQL Snippet in OrderBy is only allowed to consist of unqualified, unquoted field names and of an optional ASC/DESC positional statement. Multiple Fields are separated by a comma (,). The referenced field names have to exist on the targetEntity class of the #ManyToMany or #OneToMany annotation.
However if you use DQL you should be able to accomplish this with something like:
$qb = $em->getRepository(Ingredients::class)->createQueryBuilder('i');
$results = $qb->orderBy('FIELD(family,vegetables,fruits,meat)')
->getQuery()
->getResults();
** I havent tested this code **