v6.4.0 (stable)
Field inheritance
Overview
In this guide you'll learn how to create inherited fields for your entities. Field inheritance allows you to tell Shopware which fields should inherit values from a parent entity.
Prerequisites
This guide is built upon the Plugin Base Guide, but any plugin will work here. Just note that all examples are using the plugin mentioned above.
You also should have a look at our Adding custom complex data guide, since this guide is built upon it.
Inherit a field
To start using inheritance, we have to update our definition and database.
- 1.Make inheritable fields nullable in the database
- 2.Add the
ParentFkField,ParentAssociationField,ChildrenAssociationFieldin your definition - 3.Enable inheritance by overwriting
isInheritanceAware() - 4.Flag fields as inheritable
- 5.Add getters and setters to the entity class
Make fields nullable
The first thing we need to do is to make all our fields that we want to make inheritable nullable in our migration. If you lack knowledge about migrations, have a look at our database migrations guide. We also need a 'parent_id' field for the parent reference.
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ALTER TABLE `swag_example` ADD `parent_id` BINARY(16) NULL;
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ALTER TABLE `swag_example` MODIFY `description` VARCHAR(255) NULL;
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To avoid creating the column incorrectly, you can simply use the
Shopware\Core\Framework\Migration\InheritanceUpdaterTrait in your migrations for new fields:<plugin root>/src/Migration/Migration1615363012AddInheritanceColumnToExample.php
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<?php declare(strict_types=1);
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namespace Swag\BasicExample\Migration;
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​
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use Doctrine\DBAL\Connection;
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use Shopware\Core\Framework\Migration\InheritanceUpdaterTrait;
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use Shopware\Core\Framework\Migration\MigrationStep;
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​
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class Migration1615363012AddInheritanceColumnToExample extends MigrationStep
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{
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use InheritanceUpdaterTrait;
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​
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public function getCreationTimestamp(): int
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{
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return 1615363012;
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}
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​
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public function update(Connection $connection): void
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{
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$query = <<<SQL
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ALTER TABLE `swag_example`
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ADD `parent_id` BINARY(16) NULL,
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MODIFY `description` VARCHAR(255) NULL;
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SQL;
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$connection->executeStatement($query);
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$this->updateInheritance($connection, 'swag_example', 'example_field');
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}
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​
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public function updateDestructive(Connection $connection): void
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{
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}
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}
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Add the ParentFkField and the associations
After we've made all our fields nullable, we still need to add the following fields to our definition:
Shopware\Core\Framework\DataAbstractionLayer\Field\ParentFkField, Shopware\Core\Framework\DataAbstractionLayer\Field\ParentAssociationField and Shopware\Core\Framework\DataAbstractionLayer\Field\ChildrenAssociationField.ParentFkField: Is the foreign key, that references the parent's id.ParentAssociationField: Field that the DAL knows where to load the parent association from.ChildrenAssociationField: Field that the DAL knows where to load the children association from.
In default, ParentFkField points to a
parent_id column in the database. All these fields must refer to our definition by using self::class. The ParentAssociationField has as its second parameter the referenceField, which in our case is id. Below you can find an example of how it should then look.<plugin root>/src/Core/Content/Example/ExampleDefinition.php
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protected function defineFields(): FieldCollection
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{
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return new FieldCollection([
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...
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new ParentFkField(self::class),
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new ParentAssociationField(self::class, 'id'),
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new ChildrenAssociationField(self::class),
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...
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]);
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}
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Allow inheritance
Now we need to enable inheritance by overriding the
isInheritanceAware method in our definition, which must then return true.<plugin root>/src/Core/Content/Example/ExampleDefinition.php
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public function isInheritanceAware(): bool
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{
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return true;
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}
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Flag fields as inheritable
After we've enabled inheritance for our definition, we need to add the
Shopware\Core\Framework\DataAbstractionLayer\Field\Flag\Inherited flag to all the fields in our definition that should be inherited.<plugin root>/src/Core/Content/Example/ExampleDefinition.php
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protected function defineFields(): FieldCollection
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{
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return new FieldCollection([
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(new IdField('id', 'id'))->addFlags(new Required(), new PrimaryKey()),
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new ParentFkField(self::class),
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new ParentAssociationField(self::class, 'id'),
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new ChildrenAssociationField(self::class),
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(new StringField('name', 'name'))->addFlags(new Inherited()),
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(new StringField('description', 'description'))->addFlags(new Inherited()),
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(new BoolField('active', 'active'))->addFlags(new Inherited()),
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]);
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}
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Add getters and setters to the entity class
The last thing we need to do is add our new fields to our entity class.
<plugin root>/src/Core/Content/Example/ExampleEntity.php
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<?php declare(strict_types=1);
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namespace Swag\BasicExample\Core\Content\Example;
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use Shopware\Core\Framework\DataAbstractionLayer\Entity;
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use Shopware\Core\Framework\DataAbstractionLayer\EntityIdTrait;
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class ExampleEntity extends Entity
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{
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...
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protected ?self $parent = null;
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protected ?string $parentId;
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protected ?ExampleCollection $children = null;
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...
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public function getParent(): ?ExampleEntity
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{
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return $this->parent;
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}
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public function setParent(ExampleEntity $parent): void
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{
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$this->parent = $parent;
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}
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public function getParentId(): ?string
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{
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return $this->parentId;
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}
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public function setParentId(?string $parentId): void
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{
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$this->parentId = $parentId;
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}
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public function getChildren(): ?ExampleCollection
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{
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return $this->children;
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}
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public function setChildren(ExampleCollection $children): void
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{
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$this->children = $children;
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}
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}
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Translations
This concept also supports translations. Given a parent/child entity with an inherited language (de-CH inherits from de-DE), the inheritance system will try to look up the values in following order:
- 1.Child (de-CH)
- 2.Child (de-DE)
- 3.Parent (de-CH)
- 4.Parent (de-DE)
If an inheritance is not found, the next translation in the chain above will be used.
Enable translation inheritance
Assuming our definition is already aware of inheritance, we have to update our definition and add the
Inherited flag to our translated fields and the translation association.1
(new TranslatedField('name'))->addFlags(new Inherited()),
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(new TranslationsAssociationField(ExampleTranslationDefinition::class))->addFlags(new Inherited()),
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