[TYPO3-mvc] LazyLoadinProxy and TypeHinting causes fatal error

[Philipp]

Thats how it is.... in methods you expect a lazy property you have to respect the possibility of a LazyLoadingProxy

I would not place the realInstanceLoading in the getter, sometimes you just want to know if a lazy property is set or if the property is NULL...

but you could implement a method like load in your model

public function load() {return $this}

Then you could do something like

if ($user->getTeam()) doSomething($user->getTeam()->load())

OR

you could implement a method called hasTeam in your aggregate doing just

return ($this->team === NULL)  ? FALSE : TRUE

and do your mechanism in the getTeam method...

I would simply do it like:

somefunction($team) {
if ($team instanceof LazyLoadingProxy) $team = $team->_loadRealInstance();
}