What is Doctrine lazy loading?

What is Doctrine lazy loading?

Proxy objects with their lazy-loading facilities help to keep the subset of objects that are already in memory connected to the rest of the objects. Then when we further access a method or property of this proxied object, Doctrine will make a request to the database to load that property if it’s not already loaded.

What is lazy loading in ORM?

What is Lazy Loading ? Lazy loading load the first level data object. But when the association is called then the the required data is fetched. While this can save CPU time because possibly unused data is not hydrated into objects, it can result in many more queries being emitted to the database.

What is Doctrine persist?

The Doctrine Persistence project is a set of shared interfaces and functionality that the different Doctrine object mappers share. You can use these interfaces and abstract classes to build your own mapper if you don’t want to use the full data mappers provided by Doctrine.

What is Doctrine proxy?

A Doctrine proxy is just a wrapper that extends an entity class to provide Lazy Loading for it. By default, when you ask the Entity Manager for an entity that is associated with another entity, the associated entity won’t be loaded from the database, but wrapped into a proxy object.

How do you implement lazy loading?

The basic idea of lazy loading is simple – defer loading anything that is not needed right now. For images it usually translates to any image that is not visible to the user up front can be lazy loaded. As the user scrolls down the page, the image placeholders start coming into viewport (visible part of the webpage).

What is doctrine Symfony?

One of its key features is the option to write database queries in a proprietary object oriented SQL dialect called Doctrine Query Language (DQL), inspired by Hibernates HQL. This provides developers with a powerful alternative to SQL that maintains flexibility without requiring unnecessary code duplication.

How does Doctrine ORM work?

Doctrine uses the Identity Map pattern to track objects. Whenever you fetch an object from the database, Doctrine will keep a reference to this object inside its UnitOfWork. Doctrine only knows objects by id, so a query for different criteria has to go to the database, even if it was executed just before.

How do I know if lazy load is working?

How to tell if lazy loading is working?

  1. F12 browser tools, look at the network inspector and you can see exactly what gets loaded when. –
  2. Maybe it check the user-agent header to see what “browser” it’s interacting with? –
  3. @AlexK.
  4. One would expect them to show up as you scroll – Alex K.

What is Symfony?

Symfony is an Open Source PHP framework for web applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Thousands of web sites and applications rely on Symfony as the foundation of their web services. And most of the leading PHP projects, such as Drupal and Laravel use Symfony components to build their applications.