In our project, we use the Doctrine ORM to manage entities and their relationships. Doctrine allows access to related entities through collections, which are automatically loaded when the relationships are accessed. However, this approach presents several major drawbacks in terms of performance and maintainability.
The use of Doctrine collections generates several issues:
- Selection logic in entities: The logic for selecting relationships is included directly in the entities, which violates the principle of separation of concerns and complicates data management.