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I'd like to select members who are not in specific service. I have 3 tables :

  • membre
  • service
  • membre_service (relation between membre and service)

I'm using doctrine 2 and in SQL my query is :

SELECT m.* FROM membre m WHERE m.`id` NOT IN (
    SELECT ms.membre_id FROM membre_service ms WHERE ms.service_id != 29
)

In Doctrine, I do :

$qb  = $this->_em->createQueryBuilder();
$qb2 = $qb;
$qb2->select('m.id')
        ->from('Custom\Entity\MembreService', 'ms')
        ->leftJoin('ms.membre', 'm')
        ->where('ms.id != ?1')
        ->setParameter(1, $service);

    $qb  = $this->_em->createQueryBuilder();
    $qb->select('m')
        ->from('Custom\Entity\Membre', 'm')
        ->where($qb->expr()->notIn('m.id', $qb2->getDQL())
    );
    $query  = $qb->getQuery();
    //$query->useResultCache(true, 1200, __FUNCTION__);

    return $query->getResult();

I got the following error :

Semantical Error] line 0, col 123 near 'm WHERE ms.id': Error: 'm' is already defined.

Wilt
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3 Answers3

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The same alias cannot be defined 2 times in the same query

$qb  = $this->_em->createQueryBuilder();
$qb2 = $qb;
$qb2->select('m.id')
    ->from('Custom\Entity\MembreService', 'ms')
    ->leftJoin('ms.membre', 'm')
    ->where('ms.id != ?1');

$qb  = $this->_em->createQueryBuilder();
$qb->select('mm')
    ->from('Custom\Entity\Membre', 'mm')
    ->where($qb->expr()->notIn('mm.id', $qb2->getDQL())
);
$qb->setParameter(1, $service);
$query  = $qb->getQuery();

return $query->getResult();

Ideally you should use many-to-many relation for your entity, in this case your query is going to be much simpler.

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  • Thank for your answer! MembreService is already in many-to-many... You really helped me out! And see my edit for the final answer. May God Bless You... – Marcel Djaman Aug 12 '12 at 23:03
  • If you are using parameters in the subquery: $qb->setParameters($qb2->getParameters()); is needed, though you might want to $qb->setParameters(array_merge($qb2->getParameters(),$qb->getParameters())) to avoid overriding parameters from the exterior query. – Omn Mar 04 '16 at 01:32
  • Hmmm... take my last comment with a grain of salt, that only appears to work in some versions of doctrine... in other versions setParameters replaces rather than adds to the parameters... – Omn Mar 04 '16 at 02:27
  • Hi, little confused as to why you instantiate `$qb` twice, once on line 1 and again on line 8? Is that necessary or just a typo? – RiggsFolly Feb 09 '18 at 10:17
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Actually if you are using the Symfony2 repository class you could also do the following:

$in = $this->getEntityManager()->getRepository('Custom:MembreService')
    ->createQueryBuilder('ms')
    ->select('identity(ms.m)')
    ->where(ms.id != ?1);

$q = $this->createQueryBuilder('m')
    ->where($q->expr()->notIn('m.id', $in->getDQL()))
    ->setParameter(1, $service);

return $q->getQuery()->execute();
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6

You can use (NOT) MEMBER OF:

<?php
$query = $em->createQuery('SELECT m.id FROM Custom\Entity\Membre WHERE :service NOT MEMBER OF m.services');
$query->setParameter('service', $service);
$ids = $query->getResult();

See the documentation for more examples.

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