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*Symfony service container compiler pass which defines additional setter injection of services/parameters/values based on used traits in service classes.

Before you start using this bundle please read following article (if you have not already): http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/dependency_injection/types.html, it is imperative that you fully understand types of injection because this bundle promotes setter injection (which is considered as non-preferred method when comparing to constructor injection) in order to get higher level of productivity.

We would like you to read carefully this "readme" file as well and understand what this bundle does, with all its benefits and drawbacks, before using it, especially if you are not experienced developer with proficiency in computer science.

How this bundle works?

In one sentence: If your class is registered as service in service container and if that class uses traits like, per example, \Psr\Log\LoggerAwareTrait, this bundle will redefine your service adding a method call in its definition, injecting appropriate service, as per example, a logger.

So, instead of defining setter injection for your service, it is sufficient enough to use some kind of provided, or user defined, *AwareTrait and this bundle will provide appropriate injection (if it is configured properly, of course).

Why would you consider such method of defining setter injection?

Consider that you already have defined services in your service container which requires additional injection of, per example, services that will be used in your code.

Per example:

class MyService 
{
    public function __construct() {  }
}

And your services.yml:

services:
    my_service
        class: MyService

In order to inject, per example, a logger service into your service, you would have to modify your class, with, per example, a constructor injection:

class MyService 
{
    protected $logger

    public function __construct(\Psr\Log\LoggerInterface $logger) 
    {
        $this->logger = $logger;
    }
}

And you would have to modify services.yml as well:

services:
    my_service
        class: MyService
        argumets: [ '@logger' ]

In example above, a good practice of service injection is exercised. However, sometimes, this good practice can not be satisfied within a reasonable amount of time and effort.

Traitor bundle in the rescue

Instead of doing as in example stated above, how about to just use some trait, and some kind of "magic" will to the rest of it? Our previous example would be as easy as doing the following:

class MyService 
{
    use \Psr\Log\LoggerAwareTrait;

    public function __construct() {  }
}

And this is just good enough - you just use appropriate trait, and compiler pass within this bundle will provide your service class with appropriate setter injection.

Motivation for developing this bundle

Best example, which was a motivation to build this kind of bundle, is GeneratorBundle: https://github.com/symfony2admingenerator/GeneratorBundle.

Namely, GeneratorBundle generates all CRUD bits for you, which includes a form types as well, which are (as per courtesy of authors of this awesome library) already properly registered in service container with tag form.type, and, as good as it is, sometimes can be an issue to inject additional required services, which happens quite often.

In order to do such injection, you would have to identify the name of service under which your form type has been registered, and modify that service by either overriding its definition via configuration file in, per example, app/config/services.yml (thanks to configuration cascade) or through compiler pass.

However, we have figure out that either of that approaches just takes too much time when we worked on project in which there were app. 50 form types in need of injection of additional services.

So, we needed a solution that will handle this more elegantly, with less effort.

There are other similar solutions out there as well, like JMSDiExtraBundle which allows you to achieve the same via annotations.

Why this bundle should be used carefully?

Setter injection should be used for optional injections only. However, this solution proposes injection of required services as well via setter injection. That is not as bad as, per example, Laravel's Facade, but if it is used without understanding types of injection, it can be dangerous, mostly for developer who develops such practice without understanding the difference.
Symfony proposes certain convention of defining services for sake of the productivity and maintainability of the project. This bundle breaks that convention, and if developers are not familiar with usage of this bundle, they could have difficulty to understand how certain services got their required dependencies.
Compiler pass at first run can have impact on performances, considering that this bundle analyses all services and all traits used by their classes, as well as inheritance map of classes, as well as related usage of traits. However, trough configuration, you can narrow down a scope of search and increase performances of compiler pass.

Having in mind all dangers stated above, this bundle can help you a lot in certain use cases, giving you a flexibility and productivity at the cost of good coding practice, and you should use this bundle in such occurrences.

Please note that this bundle should not be used for redistributable Symfony bundles, for obvious reasons.

Configuration

Require this bundle via composer, composer require runopencode/traitor-bundle and register it in your AppKernel.php:

class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
    public function registerBundles()
    {
        $bundles = [
        
            ...
            
            new RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\TraitorBundle()
            
            ...
            
        ];
        return $bundles;
    }

}

and configure it, example of full configuration is given bellow:

runopencode_traitor:
    use_common_traits: false             
    inject:
        'Full\Qualified\Trait\Namespace':
            - [ 'setterMethodName', [ '@service_name', 'or_parameter_value' ]]
            - { method: 'otherSetterMethodName', arguments: [ '@service_name', 'or_parameter_value' ] }
    filters:
        tags: [ 'form.type', 'other_tag' ]
        namespaces: [ '\Namespace\Prefix1', 'Namespace\Prefix2' ]
    exclude:
        tags: [ 'tag.to.exclude' ]
        services: [ 'my.service.to_exclude' ]
        classes: [ '\Exclude\Services\ThatUsesThisClass', '\Or\Uses\ThisClass' ]
        namespaces: [ '\Exclude\AllServices\WithClasses\WithinThisNamespace\' ]

use_common_traits: Optional. This bundle provides you with common traits within \RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits namespace to boost up your productivity. If you are using them, set this parameter to true, it will add those traits to injection map. Full list of traits which you can use out-of-the-box are given bellow.
inject: Optional. Associative array of traits which should be checked for usage, and if they are used in service class, trait map defines setter injection in same way as Symfony calls definition does, an array, with first parameter that defines a method to call, and second parameter as array of arguments to pass to that method call, or, you can use associative array with keys method and atributes.
filters: Optional. In order not to scan all service classes, you can narrow down the subset to certain namespaces and/or service tags. Determining which class uses which trait can be expensive, this bundle checks both inheritance as well as related traits usage (e.g. if trait uses trait).
exclude: Optional. You can exclude certain services, tagged services, service classes and namespaces to be even considered for this kind of injection.

XML configuration

You can, of course, configure bundle via XML configuration (preferred way), and in doing so, there is XML Schema file available to you for validation and intelli sense for your configration.

Provided common traits

As previously mentioned, this bundle provides you with common traits which you may or may not use, however, if you are using them, make sure that in your configuration set use_common_traits to true, and inject map will be appended with following definitions as well:

'Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerAwareTrait': ['setContainer', ['@service_container']]
'Psr\Log\LoggerAwareTrait': ['setLogger', ['@logger']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\DoctrineAwareTrait': ['setDoctrine', ['@doctrine']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\EventDispatcherAwareTrait': ['setEventDispatcher', ['@event_dispatcher']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\FilesystemAwareTrait': ['setFilesystem', ['@filesystem']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\KernelAwareTrait': ['setKernel', ['@kernel']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\MailerAwareInterface': ['setMailer', ['@mailer']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\PropertyAccessorAwareTrait': ['setPropertyAccessor', ['@property_accessor']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\RequestStackAwareTrait': ['setRequestStack', ['@request_stack']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\RouterAwareTrait': ['setRouter', ['@router']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\AuthorizationCheckerAwareTrait': ['setAuthorizationChecker', ['@security.authorization_checker']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\SessionAwareTrait': ['setSession', ['@session']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\TwigAwareTrait': ['setTwig', ['@twig']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\TranslatorAwareTrait': ['setTranslator', ['@translator']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\ValidatorAwareTrait': ['setValidator', ['@validator']]
'RunOpenCode\Bundle\Traitor\Traits\TokenStorageAwareTrait': ['setTokenStorage', ['@security.token_storage']]

In general, common traits will help you to boost your productivity when injecting following services:

service_container
logger
doctrine
event_dispatcher
filesystem
kernel
mailer
property_accessor
request_stack
router
security.authorization_checker
session
twig
translator
validator
security.token_storage

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