I have a doctrine entity Page
that has a property category
. I use EasyAdminBundle to modify the pages. There are 4 fixed categories and I want a separate list view for each category. In the menu bar, each category should be displayed separately.
I know I can accomplish this by creating separate entities with the same doctrine class and giving them each a separate DQL filter, like this:
YAML config:
easy_admin:
design:
menu:
- label: "Pages"
children:
- entity: PageCategory1
- entity: PageCategory2
- entity: PageCategory3
- entity: PageCategory4
However, I don't want to copy and paste all of the other config to each entity every time I change something. I would like to do something like this:
YAML config:
easy_admin:
design:
menu:
- label: "Pages"
children:
- entity: Page
label: 'Category 1'
dql_filter: "entity.category = 'category1'"
- entity: Page
label: 'Category 2'
dql_filter: "entity.category = 'category2'"
- entity: Page
label: 'Category 3'
dql_filter: "entity.category = 'category3'"
- entity: Page
label: 'Category 4'
dql_filter: "entity.category = 'category4'"
Right now, I've tried the following. It works to some extent, but when I start searching inside the list view for example, the filter doesn't work anymore. I also think it's not the most elegant solution.
YAML config:
easy_admin:
design:
menu:
- label: "Pages"
children:
- entity: Page
label: 'Category 1'
params:
- dql_filter: "entity.category = 'category1'"
- entity: Page
label: 'Category 2'
params:
- dql_filter: "entity.category = 'category2'"
- entity: Page
label: 'Category 3'
params:
- dql_filter: "entity.category = 'category3'"
- entity: Page
label: 'Category 4'
params:
- dql_filter: "entity.category = 'category4'"
Override of the listAction method:
protected function listAction()
{
$this->dispatch(EasyAdminEvents::PRE_LIST);
$fields = $this->entity['list']['fields'];
/* START CUSTOM PART */
// Check if there is a DQL filter given with the request, otherwise get the DQL filter from the entity itself
$dqlFilter = ($this->request->query->get('0')['dql_filter'] ? $this->request->query->get('0')['dql_filter'] : $this->entity['list']['dql_filter']);
$paginator = $this->findAll($this->entity['class'], $this->request->query->get('page', 1), $this->entity['list']['max_results'], $this->request->query->get('sortField'), $this->request->query->get('sortDirection'), $dqlFilter);
/* END CUSTOM PART */
$this->dispatch(EasyAdminEvents::POST_LIST, array('paginator' => $paginator));
$parameters = array(
'paginator' => $paginator,
'fields' => $fields,
'delete_form_template' => $this->createDeleteForm($this->entity['name'], '__id__')->createView(),
);
return $this->executeDynamicMethod('render<EntityName>Template', array('list', $this->entity['templates']['list'], $parameters));
}
I see that the EsayAdminExtensionBundle has filters that can be added to the URL, but I have no idea on how to do that from the menu config. Does anybody know a possible solution to this? Thanks!
Unforunately, there is no solution. Javier Eguiluz answered me on Github:
I'm afraid this is one of the drawbacks of using YAML for config. It's not easy to reuse contents/confgis for things like this. We don't plan to add support for this feature. Although is a solution far from ideal, I recommend you to copy+paste the config for the four categories. I'm sorry!