/**
* Gets the repository for an entity class.
*
* @param string $entityName The name of the entity.
* @return EntityRepository The repository class.
*/
public function getRepository($entityName)
{
$entityName = ltrim($entityName, '\\');
if (isset($this->repositories[$entityName])) {
return $this->repositories[$entityName];
}
$metadata = $this->getClassMetadata($entityName);
$repositoryClassName = $metadata->customRepositoryClassName;
if ($repositoryClassName === null) {
$repositoryClassName = $this->config->getDefaultRepositoryClassName();
}
$repository = new $repositoryClassName($this, $metadata);
$this->repositories[$entityName] = $repository;
return $repository;
}
