<?php

use PHPSnippets\Db\Entity\Test;

// get Test entity with id 1
$entity = $entityManager->find(Test::CLASS, 1);

echo sprintf(
    '<b>id: %d, name: %s</b>' . PHP_EOL,
    $entity->id,
    $entity->name
);

// create new Test with same id as $entity
// but with different name and date
$test = new Test();
$test->id = 1;
$test->name = 'merged';

$entityManager->merge($test);

// after merge, $entity with id 1 got the values of $test.
// $entityManager->flush() will update it in DB
echo sprintf(
    '<b>id: %d, name: %s</b>' . PHP_EOL,
    $entity->id,
    $entity->name
);

id: 1, name: foo
id: 1, name: merged

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