Access to entity repository from an entity

[eoruxorit]

Hello,

Suppose that I have the class Task, and this class has a TaskState.
TaskState has an id, name and description.

Both classes are Doctrine entities and are mapped to the Task and TaskState tables respectively.

My problem is the following, Task has a method called lock, this method needs to change the state of the Task entity, assigning a existent TaskState object that represent the "locked" state.

To have semantic meaning, this need to have no parameters, but, I need to access to the TaskState repository the get the suitable object to accomplish this logic.
So, how can I solve this problem? Have I design issues?

Thanks in advance!

[dreipunktnull]

Hi,

I think you should put this logic in a service that provides some lockTask(Task $task) method because entities should not have dependencies. You would only need to inject the doctrine.orm.entity_manager service to get the needed repo.