Symfony doctrine lazy load properties

I have an entity that stores large files as blobs to the DB.

I would now like to get Symfony to never ever load these blobs unless I specifically request them via the appropriate getter.

In essence I want the same idea as lazy-loading relationships but for a string property.

What I have tried so far is to put all my other properties that hold the file meta data into a trait and then apply that trait to two entities.

namespace App\Entity\Traits;use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;trait DocumentMetaData{    /**     * @var int|null     *     * @ORM\Id     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")     */    private $id;    /**     * @var \DateTime|null     *     * @ORM\Column(type="datetime")     */    private $date_uploaded;}

One entity has nothing to it but the trait...

namespace App\Entity;use App\Entity\Traits\DocumentMetaData;use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;/** * @ORM\Table(name="documents") * @ORM\Entity() */class Document{    use DocumentMetaData;}

...the other has the added blob property:

namespace App\Entity;use App\Entity\Traits\DocumentMetaData;use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;/** * @ORM\Table(name="documents") * @ORM\Entity() */class DocumentFile{    use DocumentMetaData;    /**     * @var string|null     *     * @ORM\Column(type="blob")     */    private $blob;}

Now, if I don't want the blob to be loaded, for example for a listing of files, I simply use the entity that doesn't have the blob.

This approach sort of works but causes issues as I need to point both entities at the same table (see the class level ORM annotations).

Specifically, it makes doctrine freak out when running migrations:

The table with name 'myapp.documents' already exists.

That makes perfect sense and really I'm hoping that someone can point me to a nicer solution.

How can I tell doctrine not to load the blob unless its explicitly asked for?