Namespace Cake\ORM

Class summary

• Association

  An Association is a relationship established between two tables and is used to configure and customize the way interconnected records are retrieved.

• AssociationCollection

  A container/collection for association classes.

• Behavior

  Base class for behaviors.

• BehaviorRegistry

  BehaviorRegistry is used as a registry for loaded behaviors and handles loading and constructing behavior objects.

• EagerLoader

  Exposes the methods for storing the associations that should be eager loaded for a table once a query is provided and delegates the job of creating the required joins and decorating the results so that those associations can be part of the result set.

• Entity

  An entity represents a single result row from a repository. It exposes the methods for retrieving and storing properties associated in this row.

• Marshaller

  Contains logic to convert array data into entities.

• Query

  Extends the base Query class to provide new methods related to association loading, automatic fields selection, automatic type casting and to wrap results into a specific iterator that will be responsible for hydrating results if required.

• ResultSet

  Represents the results obtained after executing a query for a specific table This object is responsible for correctly nesting result keys reported from the query, casting each field to the correct type and executing the extra queries required for eager loading external associations.

• RulesChecker

  ORM flavoured rules checker.

• Table

  Represents a single database table.

• TableRegistry

  Provides a registry/factory for Table objects.

Traits summary

• AssociationsNormalizerTrait

  Contains methods for parsing the associated tables array that is typically passed to a save operation