I have a document with a field marked for persistence as a Collection
use Doctrine\ODM\MongoDB\Mapping\Annotations as ODM;
/** @ODM\Document */
class Item
{
/**
* @ODM\Collection
*/
protected $things;
}
By default, when Doctrine maps the values from Mongo it will set $things to be an instance of Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection.
This violates my domain model however as my domain objects expect the $things property to be an instance of my own collection class ThingsCollection. This class does various validations on the list of things.
How can I tell Doctrine to use my ThingsCollection class instead? I imagine I will have to make the ThingsCollection class implement the Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection interface but that is not a problem if I can just figure out how to tell Doctrine about the mapping in the first place.
