/**
* This function tries, given an array of data, to convert it to an object if the given array contains
* an identifier for the object. This is useful in a context of updating existing entities, without ugly
* tricks like setting manually the existing id directly into the entity
*
* @param array $data
* @param object $object
* @return object
*/
protected function tryConvertArrayToObject($data, $object)
{
$identifierNames = $this->metadata->getIdentifierFieldNames($object);
$identifierValues = array();
if (empty($identifierNames)) {
return $object;
}
foreach ($identifierNames as $identifierName) {
if (!isset($data[$identifierName]) || empty($data[$identifierName])) {
return $object;
}
$identifierValues[$identifierName] = $data[$identifierName];
}
return $this->find(get_class($object), $identifierValues);
}
