Object Change Tracking
Change tracking is the process of determining what has changed in observed objects since the last time they were synchronized with the persistence backend.
This approach is based on the observer pattern and consists of the following two interfaces:
Doctrine\Persistence\NotifyPropertyChangedthat is implemented by the object whose changes can be tracked,Doctrine\Persistence\PropertyChangedListenerthat is implemented by subscribers which are interested in tracking the changes.
Notifying subscribers
A class that wants to allow other objects to subscribe needs to
implement the NotifyPropertyChanged interface. As a guideline,
such an implementation can look as follows:
1 <?php
use Doctrine\Persistence\NotifyPropertyChanged;
use Doctrine\Persistence\PropertyChangedListener;
class MyTrackedObject implements NotifyPropertyChanged
{
// ...
/** @var PropertyChangedListener[] */
private $listeners = [];
public function addPropertyChangedListener(PropertyChangedListener $listener) : void
{
$this->listeners[] = $listener;
}
} 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Then, in each mutator of this class or any derived classes, you
need to notify all the PropertyChangedListener instances. As an
example we add a convenience method on MyTrackedObject that shows
this behavior:
1 <?php
// ...
class MyTrackedObject implements NotifyPropertyChanged
{
// ...
final protected function notifySubscribers(string $propertyName, $oldValue, $newValue) : void
{
foreach ($this->listeners as $listener) {
$listener->propertyChanged($this, $propertyName, $oldValue, $newValue);
}
}
public function setAge(int $age) : void
{
if ($this->age === $age) {
return;
}
$this->notifySubscribers('age', $this->age, $age);
$this->age = $age;
}
} 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
You have to invoke notifySubscribers() inside every method that
changes the persistent state of MyTrackedObject.
The check whether the new value is different from the old one is not mandatory but recommended. That way you also have full control over when you consider a property changed.