Deep clone Doctrine entity with related entities

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You have to implement a __clone() method in your entities that sets the id to null and clones the relations if desired. Because if you keep the id in the related object it assumes that your new entity A has a relation to the existing entities B and C.

Clone-method for A:

public function __clone() {
    if ($this->id) {
        $this->setId(null);
        $this->B = clone $this->B;
        $this->C = clone $this->C;
    }
}

Clone-method for B and C:

public function __clone() {
    if ($this->id) {
        $this->setId(null);
    }
}

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/doctrine-user/Nu2rayrDkgQ

https://doctrine-orm.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cookbook/implementing-wakeup-or-clone.html

Based on the comment of coder4show a clone-method for a OneToMany relationship on A where $this->M is OneToMany and therefore an ArrayCollection:

public function __clone() {
    if ($this->id) {
        $this->setId(null);

        // cloning the relation M which is a OneToMany
        $mClone = new ArrayCollection();
        foreach ($this->M as $item) {
            $itemClone = clone $item;
            $itemClone->setA($this);
            $mClone->add($itemClone);
        }
        $this->M = $mClone;
    }
}

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