Doctrine 2 get real class name of proxy class

Question

The following:

I have approximantely 20 models. These classes extend a base class. This base class contains a method which should be able to determine the classname of the child element. Normally you could this with:

get_called_class();

But in many cases doctrine 2 uses ProxyClasses and in that case the get_called_class() function returns something like:

Proxies\BasePageElementProxy

While the original name is \Base\PageElement. Can anybody tell me how I can find out what the name of this class is (without generating the name out of the string Proxies\BaseSectionProxy cause that is dirty and in many cases unreliable).

Answer 1

You get the real name by calling:

$em->getClassMetadata(get_called_class())->name;

This however requires a reference to the EntityManager. If you are doing static finder methods through your entity classes you will have access to that statically/globally anyways though, for example:

abstract class Record
{
    private static $em = null;

    static public function setEntityManager($em)
    {
        self::$em = $em;
    }

    static public function __callStatic($method, $args)
    {
        $className = self::$em->getClassMetadata(get_called_class())->name;
        return call_user_func_array(array(self::$em->getRepository($className), $method), $args);
    }
}

Answer 2

use the Doctrine class 'ClassUtils'

\Doctrine\Common\Util\ClassUtils::getRealClass(get_class($entity));