Events.php

<?php
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namespace Doctrine\ORM;

/**
 * Container for all ORM events.
 *
 * This class cannot be instantiated.
 *
 * @author Roman Borschel <roman@code-factory.org>
 * @since 2.0
 */
final class Events
{
    private function __construct() {}
    /**
     * The preRemove event occurs for a given entity before the respective
     * EntityManager remove operation for that entity is executed.
     * 
     * This is an entity lifecycle event.
     * 
     * @var string
     */
    const preRemove = 'preRemove';
    /**
     * The postRemove event occurs for an entity after the entity has 
     * been deleted. It will be invoked after the database delete operations.
     * 
     * This is an entity lifecycle event.
     * 
     * @var string
     */
    const postRemove = 'postRemove';
    /**
     * The prePersist event occurs for a given entity before the respective
     * EntityManager persist operation for that entity is executed.
     * 
     * This is an entity lifecycle event.
     * 
     * @var string
     */
    const prePersist = 'prePersist';
    /**
     * The postPersist event occurs for an entity after the entity has 
     * been made persistent. It will be invoked after the database insert operations.
     * Generated primary key values are available in the postPersist event.
     * 
     * This is an entity lifecycle event.
     * 
     * @var string
     */
    const postPersist = 'postPersist';
    /**
     * The preUpdate event occurs before the database update operations to 
     * entity data. 
     * 
     * This is an entity lifecycle event.
     * 
     * @var string
     */
    const preUpdate = 'preUpdate';
    /**
     * The postUpdate event occurs after the database update operations to 
     * entity data. 
     * 
     * This is an entity lifecycle event.
     * 
     * @var string
     */
    const postUpdate = 'postUpdate';
    /**
     * The postLoad event occurs for an entity after the entity has been loaded
     * into the current EntityManager from the database or after the refresh operation
     * has been applied to it.
     * 
     * Note that the postLoad event occurs for an entity before any associations have been
     * initialized. Therefore it is not safe to access associations in a postLoad callback
     * or event handler.
     * 
     * This is an entity lifecycle event.
     * 
     * @var string
     */
    const postLoad = 'postLoad';
    /**
     * The loadClassMetadata event occurs after the mapping metadata for a class
     * has been loaded from a mapping source (annotations/xml/yaml).
     * 
     * @var string
     */
    const loadClassMetadata = 'loadClassMetadata';
    
    /**
     * The onFlush event occurs when the EntityManager#flush() operation is invoked,
     * after any changes to managed entities have been determined but before any
     * actual database operations are executed. The event is only raised if there is
     * actually something to do for the underlying UnitOfWork. If nothing needs to be done,
     * the onFlush event is not raised.
     * 
     * @var string
     */
    const onFlush = 'onFlush';
}