is it possible to override doctrine2 persistentobject magic getters and setting - zend-framework

Question

Can anybody tell me whether its posible to override doctrine2 persistentobject magic getters\setters? i'd like to do the below:-
public function setDob($dob)
{
$this->dob= new \Date($date);
}
however my entity is defined as:-
use Doctrine\Common\Persistence\PersistentObject;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
/**
* User
*
* #ORM\Table(name="user")
* #ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Ajfit\Repository\User")
* #ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks
*/
class User extends \Doctrine\Common\Persistence\PersistentObject
{
/**
* #var date $dob
*
* #ORM\Column(name="dob", type="date")
*/
protected $dob;
}
the public function setDob does not get called when I create the entity using:-
public function getNewRecord() {
return $this->metadata->newInstance();
}
I get the below error:-
Notice:- array to string conversion ...Doctrine\DBAL\Statement.php on line 98
Any help would be much apprieciated.
Thanks
Andrew

Answer 1

__call of PersistentObject#__call will not be called if you defined the setDob method.
What you're doing there is creating a new instance via metadata. What you are doing there is probably assuming that __construct or any setter/getter should be called by the ORM. Doctrine avoids to call any methods on your object when generating it via metadata/hydration (check ClassMetadataInfo#newInstance to see how it is done) as it does only know it's fields.
This allows you to be completely independent from Doctrine's logic.
About the notice, that is a completely different issue coming from Doctrine\DBAL\Statement, which suggests me that you have probably some wrong parameter binding in a query. That should be handled separately.