How heavily should the entity be filled with properties?

Question

symfony

Hello everyone, I asked myself such an important question for me. The fact is that I am developing functionality on Symfony - a user management manager, something like FOSUserBundle (I don’t use a ready-made package, because then I won’t know how it works, all the more what a thrill from such a development). There is a User entity based on DoctrineORM, which actually stores all information about the user. The essence of my question is that over time there can be too much information (properties in the User class / entity) about the user, and is it worth putting all this into one entity?

Answer 1

In the entity itself, put only information that affects authorization and roles. Place other information in the Profile entity and link one to one. If there are many properties (fields), then there is already a question for designing a database.