Cannot access protected property $id

[hi-ko]

Disclaimer: I am not a PHP developer, so please bare with me asking this question

Years ago I implemented a custom (afterSave) hook to calculate values for a custom field referencing the value of an auto-increment field (which is not accessable before save).

I now upgraded this espocrm to the latest version but now get an exception accessing the entity id value I used so far to update the database.

ERROR: Slim Application Error Type: Error Code: 0 Message: Cannot access protected property Espo\Modules\Crm\Entities\Contact::$id File: /var/www/espocrm/custom/Espo/Custom/Hooks/Contact/ContactNo.php Line: 23 Trace: #0 /var/www/espocrm/application/Espo/Core/Hook/GeneralInvoker.php(186): Espo\Custom\Hooks\Contact\ContactNo->afterSave()

If the entity id is now private, what is the recommended way to modify a field value of a new record afterSave?

The function I used so far looks like this:

    public function afterSave(Entity $entity, array $options): void
    {
        if ( $entity->isNew() ) {
            $entityId = $entity->id;
            $entityNew = $this->entityManager->getEntity('Contact', $entityId);
            $entityNo = 'CO_' . str_pad($entityNew->get('contactId'), 5, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT );
            $update = $this->entityManager->getQueryBuilder()->update()
                ->in('Contact')
                ->set(['contactNo' => $entityNo ])
                ->where([
                    'id' => $entityId
                ])
                ->build();
            $this->entityManager->getQueryExecutor()->execute($update);
        }
    } 

I know, for the example above I may also

• use a Number field but there is a need to have a (unique) auto-increment field having the same numeric value
• use a calulated field but in https://docs.espocrm.com/user-guide/...x-expressions/ I do not have a PAD function which is expected here

so independent from if this code above is a good example for a afterSave hook, my question is how to read values in such a hook after save and store calclulated values in another field.

[item]

Hi,
just see : $entity->getId();

But i see some strange .. if this is Contact afterSave .. and you update Contact .. it's so i think

    public function afterSave(Entity $entity, array $options): void
    {
        if ( $entity->isNew() ) {
            $entityNo = 'CO_' . str_pad($entity->getId(), 5, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT );
            $update = $this->entityManager->getQueryBuilder()->update()
                ->in('Contact')
                ->set(['contactNo' => $entityNo ])
                ->where([
                    'id' => $entity->getId()
                ])
                ->build();
            $this->entityManager->getQueryExecutor()->execute($update);
        }
    } 

[hi-ko]

Hi @item,
thank you very much for your quick help!

Using the getter getId() actually did the trick. Issue solved.

just fyi: contactId is a custom autoincrement field, so I have to reread the entity again as $entityNew to get the value filled by the db using autoincrement/sequence. What may seem a little strange to you is simply a work around to retrieve the autoincrement value that is not available in the PHP entity at that point in time.