Base Record

# symfony validator service classes
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Validator;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\ValidatorFactory;

/**
 * Base class which contains commonly used funcitons, as of Doctrine2 it does not need to extend any Doctrine specific class
 *
 * @ORM\MappedSuperclass
 * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks
 *
 */
class BaseRecord {


    /**
     * Hook to validate entities before they are persisted to the database, will not throw exceptions
     * but will update the error stack as Doctrine1 did
     *
     * @return bool
     *
     * @ORM\PrePersist
     * @ORM\PreUpdate
     */
    public function validate(){
        $factory = ValidatorFactory::buildDefault();
        $validator = $factory->getValidator();
        $violations = $validator->validate($this);
        debugMessage($violations);

        if ($violations->count() > 0) {
            // add the violation messages to the errors array, they will be translated
            foreach ($violations as $violation) {
                $this->errorstack[] = $violaton->getMessage();
            }
        }
    }