Symfony2 Doctrine Join Entity - symfony

Question

I have a entity with the next join:
class blogComment
{
....
/**
* #ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="BlogComment", mappedBy="replyTo")
*/
protected $replies;
....
}
Now I get successfully all the replies. But I only want to get: where active = true
How to do that?
Oke if you guys recommend to get the comments by query in the controller how to build a nested array to get result like this:

Answer 1

For solving the part where you only want active replies there are a couple of options:
1) Use some custom DQL in a repository:
$dql = 'SELECT bc FROM BlogComment bc WHERE bc.replyTo = :id AND bc.active = :active';
$q = $em->createQuery($dql)
->setParameters(array('id' => $id, 'active' => true));
2) Using ArrayCollection::filter() in the getter:
public function getReplies()
{
return $this->replies
->filter(function ($reply) {
return $reply->isActive();
})
->toArray();
}
3) Using ArrayCollection::matching() (Collection Criteria API) in the getter:
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\Criteria;
// ...
public function getReplies()
{
$criteria = new Criteria::create()
->where(Criteria::expr()->eq('active', true));
return $this->replies
->matching($criteria)
->toArray();
}
4) Use Filters. These can add where clauses to queries regardless of where that query is generated. Please see the docs.
If you want to be able to fetch an entire set of replies, nested and all, in a single query, you need to implement some kind of "tree" of "nested set" functionality. I'd advise you to look at the Tree behavior of l3pp4rd/DoctrineExtensions.

Answer 2

http://doctrine-orm.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/dql-doctrine-query-language.html
Wherever you are obtaining your blog comments to display them (probably on a controller), you need to customise your query so that only the active replies are extracted. Something like:
$query = $em->createQuery('SELECT b FROM blogComment b JOIN b.replies r WHERE r.active = :active');
$query->setParameter('active', true);
$blogComments = $query->getResult();
EDIT:
For your new requirement of nested replies, you would need to specify a relationship between a comment entity and its parent comment.