使用多对多自引用关系在Bridge Table中添加NULL值

Question

我有两张桌子：

category
id | name
1  | Programming
2  | Designing
3  | PHP
4  | C#
5  | Adobe Photoshop

category_tree
category_id | parent_id
1           | NULL
2           | NULL
3           | 1
4           | 1
5           | 2

这是实体类：

 /**
 * @ORM\Entity
 * @ORM\Table(name="category")
 */
 class Category
{

/**
 * @var integer
 *
 * @ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer", nullable=false)
 * @ORM\Id
 * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="IDENTITY")
 */
protected $id;
/**
 * @ORM\Column(type="text", name="name")
 */
protected $name;
    /**
 * @ORM\Column(type="text", name="description")
 */

/**
 * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="Category")
 * @ORM\JoinTable(name="category_tree",
 *      joinColumns={@ORM\JoinColumn(name="category_id", referencedColumnName="id")},
 *      inverseJoinColumns={@ORM\JoinColumn(name="parent_id", referencedColumnName="id")}
 *      )
 */
protected $categories;




public function __construct()
{
    $this->categories = new \Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection();
}

public function addCategory(Category $category)
{
    $this->categories[] = $category;
    return $this;
}

public function getCategories()
{
    return $this->categories;
}

public function getId()
{
    return $this->id;
}

public function setName($name)
{
    $this->name = $name;
    return $this;
}

public function getName()
{
    return $this->name;
}

}

如何在“Category_tree”表中添加NULL值？