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DCOM-308: Create a Mapping Component
Jira issue originally created by user @ocramius:
All of the ORM/ODM projects currently rely on bi-directional mapping of:
- one column (persistence layer) <-> one object property
- one column (persistence layer) <-> one embeddable property
- multiple columns (persistence layer) <-> one embeddable property
- multiple columns (persistence layer) <-> one object property
- one column (persistence layer) <-> multiple property
- one column (persistence layer) <-> multiple embeddable properties
- one column (persistence layer) <-> an association
- multiple columns (persistence layer) <-> an association ... and more
Hibernate ORM seems to abstract this logic with a Property and a Column abstractions, each being a visitable DSL ( accept($value, $orm) , or similar).
This sort of DSL would be:
- a good replacement for DBAL types
- a good embeddable hacks
- a good replacement for association hydration logic
- a good replacement for identifier mapping
We could need a mapping component that allows mapping any map-alike data-structure to any php object graph.