The best way to fetch Array or Object

[4orever]

Maybe it's not about this library but I'll ask. What is the best way to make repository methods to be possible to return both Array and Objects?
It's not a good idea to make two versions of one method (findBy() and findByAsArray()).

The second way I used before is bad too. I used setFetchMode() for the whole repository. It causes the promblems with unknown method result without knowing the context, IDE autocomplete and so on.

May be I just should use return $qb->getQuery() and then calls proper method in service or controller class?

$repository->findBy(/*...*/)->getArrayResult();

How to name such methods? findX() seems inappropriate.

Any other ideas?

[peter-gribanov]

Using this library, you can do this:

$repository->match(Spec::eq('field_name', $value), Spec::asArray());