From 819ed07c516ac224e3fbb8ab5215701ee33e6c0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Flori <thflori@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 10:02:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] create a static query method to get an entity fetcher for the
 entity

---
 src/Entity.php              | 10 ++++++++++
 tests/Entity/HelperTest.php | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tests/Entity/HelperTest.php

diff --git a/src/Entity.php b/src/Entity.php
index 7170988..6a994a6 100644
--- a/src/Entity.php
+++ b/src/Entity.php
@@ -132,6 +132,16 @@ public static function getColumnName($attribute)
             ->getColumnName(static::class, $attribute, static::$columnPrefix, static::$namingSchemeColumn);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Create an entityFetcher for this entity
+     *
+     * @return EntityFetcher
+     */
+    public static function query()
+    {
+        return EM::getInstance(static::class)->fetch(static::class);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Get the primary key vars
      *
diff --git a/tests/Entity/HelperTest.php b/tests/Entity/HelperTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e8b599
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Entity/HelperTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace ORM\Test\Entity;
+
+use ORM\EntityManager;
+use ORM\Test\Entity\Examples\Article;
+use ORM\Test\TestCase;
+
+class HelperTest extends TestCase
+{
+    /** @test */
+    public function queryReturnsAnEntityFetcher()
+    {
+        $fetcher = Article::query();
+
+        self::assertEquals(EntityManager::getInstance(Article::class)->fetch(Article::class), $fetcher);
+    }
+}