It turns out the solution is really simple. We just need to tell Doctrine of our intentions to fetch just part of the entity, by using the partial DQL keyword. SELECT partial l{id, title} FROM Log l Word of warning though: Doctrine will not lazily fetch the omitted fields, like it does for associations. If ...

We’ve done a lot of work so its time to see one of the most powerful features of Doctrine: events. Using an ORM gives us the flexibility to have hooks that are executed whenever certain things are done, like when an entity is first persisted to the database, updated, or deleted.