Insert new record with a relationship link

[aldisa]

I have two entities that are related to each other as follows

Assignment <= Many to One => Account

In the fields of MySQL table for Assignment, there is a field called `account_id` which contains the `id` of the linked record in the Account table.

With this in mind, is it possible to insert a new Assignment as follows:

$entity = $entityManager->createEntity('Assignment', [
  'account' => /* id of Account record */,
  /* other data */
], $saveOptions); 

If not possible...

The ORM Docs has a section for how to create a relationship between two entities, but it is not clear to me how insert a single new Assignment record with a link to a single existing Account record specified in it.

Would it be:

$account = $entityManager->getEntityById('Account', /* id of Account record */);

$assignment = $entityManager->createEntity('Assignment', [
  /* other data */
]);

$entityManager->getRDBRepository('Assignment')
  ->getRelation($assignment, 'account')
  ->relate($account); 

Thanks in advance for the guidance

[item]

$entity = $entityManager->createEntity('Assignment', [
  'accountId' => /* id of Account record */,
  /* other data */
], $saveOptions);  ​ 

i don't know if this post respect :
afterRelate or afterUnrelate hook

but second solution respect rules of hook and certainly many other think

[rabii]

Second solution is more convenient however even first solution should work fine. i would recommend to stick with the 2nd solution as it is more readable.