如何让Doctrine不创建一个永远真实的场景？

Question

I am trying to compare datetime values using Doctrine.

I have a Doctrine query that looks like this:

$interval = new \DateInterval('PT'. 2 .'H');
$oldestAllowedDateTime = new \DateTime();
$oldestAllowedDateTime = $oldestAllowedDateTime->sub( $interval );

$queryBuilder = $repository->createQueryBuilder('pn');
$queryBuilder = $queryBuilder->select('notification')
  ->from('AppBundle\Entity\PushNotification','notification')
  ->where('pn.isSent IS NULL OR pn.isSent = 0')
  ->andwhere('pn.sendDate > :oldestAllowedDateTime')
  ->orderBy('pn.sendDate', 'DESC')
;
$queryBuilder->setParameter('oldestAllowedDateTime',$oldestAllowedDateTime);
$result = $queryBuilder->getQuery()->getResult();

... and it is creating SQL that looks like this:

SELECT p0_.id AS id_0, 
p0_.content AS content_1, p0_.last_offset AS last_offset_2, 
p0_.failure_count AS failure_count_3, p0_.is_sent AS is_sent_4, 
p0_.send_date AS send_date_5 FROM push_notification p1_, 
push_notification p0_ WHERE (p1_.is_sent IS NULL OR p1_.is_sent = 0) 
AND p1_.send_date > ? ORDER BY p1_.send_date DESC

Doctrine is returning all records, including ones that are older than the datetime I specify. That makes sense in a way, since Doctrine appears to be setting up an "always true" scenario involving the timestamp comparison I want to do.

Is there a simple way to make Doctrine only return the records that are newer than my oldestAllowedDateTime value?

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Edit: Here is the send_date content from my database.

mysql> SELECT send_date FROM push_notification;
+---------------------+
| send_date           |
+---------------------+
| 2018-01-24 05:51:21 |
| 2018-01-24 11:44:30 |
+---------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Answer 1

Your code look good, please give a try to the next function

// Inside your PushNotificationrRepository
public function getNotSentByDateInterval(\DateTimeInterval $interval)
{
    $from = (new \DateTime())->sub($interval);

    $qb = $this->createQueryBuilder('pn');
    $qb->where('pn.isSent IS NULL OR pn.isSent = 0')
      ->andWhere('pn.sendDate > :oldestAllowedDateTime')
      ->setParameter('oldestAllowedDateTime', $from)
      ->orderBy('pn.sendDate', 'DESC')
    ;

    return $qb->getQuery()->getResult();
}

This should do the job