John Davidson

Message:

In Symfony, we can get current logged-in user data using $this->getUser(), but my problem is when I access this statement, I am getting all the user-associated data set. which has OneToMany relationships with another entity, and it has a lot of data.

Example:

User Entity

`

class User implements UserInterface

{

    /**

     * @var string

     * @ORM\Id

     * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=10)

     *

     */

    protected $id;



    /**

     * @var string

     * @ORM\Column(type="string")

     */

    protected $email;





    /**

     * @var array

     * @ORM\Column(type="json")

     */

    protected $roles;





    /**

     * One User has Many Posts.

     * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="App\Entity\Post", mappedBy="user", fetch="LAZY")

     *

     *

     */

    private Collection  $posts;

`

Post Entity

`

class Post

{

    /**

    * @var string

    * @ORM\Id

    * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")

    * @ORM\Column(type="integer", length=11)

    */

    private $id;



  



    /**

    * Many posts have one user.

    * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="App\Entity\User", inversedBy="post", fetch="EXTRA_LAZY")

    * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="userId", referencedColumnName="id")

    */

    private $user;

`

I am looking to get rid of the user-associated data set or limit the associated data set to limit 1.

Thank you for the help in advance. :)

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My Answer:
In Symfony, you can access properties and methods of an object using the `$this` keyword. For example, if you have an object called `$user` and you want to access a property called `name`, you can do so like this:

php
$user->name;


Similarly, if you want to call a method called `save` on the `$user` object, you can do so like this:

php
$user->save();


Remember that you can only use the `$this` keyword inside a class to refer to the current object instance.