Getting latest entity data from the database

Question

The problem: I open a drush php:cli shell and run the following:

>>> \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('paragraph')->load(477)->get('field_end_time')->getValue()[0]['value'];
=> "05:01"

I then change the value in the database to 05:02 via the admin panel (content section).

But if I run the same command again in the shell, I still get 05:01.

If I close the shell and open a new one I get 05:02. How do I demand the latest data without terminating the process and starting over? This seems like it must be a basic thing but I've searched far and wide and tried clearing caches and etc. but no dice.

This is affecting me because I have a PHP process that is started by cron that handles a Websocket connections and the same thing is happening there—it's getting stale data from the database.

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

You can clear the cached entity in memory to get the latest field values:

\Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('paragraph')->resetCache([477]);

See Referenced entities show old value when changing properties