Symfony - get access to the method from another file in controller - php

Question

I am using symfony 3 and trying to get access to the class I declared in
src/AppBundle/Service/ApiEngine.php
namespace AppBundle\Service;
use DateTime;
class ApiEngine {
private $api_handler;
public function __construct($username, bool $repos) {
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$request = 'https://api.github.com/users/' . $username;
$request .= ($repos) ? '/repos' : "";
$res = $client->request('GET', $request);
$this->api_handler = json_decode($res->getBody()->getContents(), true);
}
public function getProfileData() {
return [ /*some data*/ ];
}
}
I declared this file in
config/service.yml
service:
*
*
*
api:
class: AppBundle\Service\ApiEngine
arguments: ["#username", "#repos"]
In controller I am trying to use some of the ApiEngine methods like this:
src/AppBundle/Controller/GitApiController.php
namespace AppBundle\Controller;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route; use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
class GitApiController extends Controller {
/**
* #Route("/{username}", name ="gitapi", defaults={"username": "symfony"})
*/
public function gitApiAction($username) {
$api = $this->get('api')->__construct($username, false)->getProfileData();
return $this->render('gitapi/index.html.twig', $api);
} }
But it gives me this error:
(1/1) ServiceNotFoundException The service "api" has a dependency on a
non-existent service "username".

Answer 1

I advise you to change your class into this for example:
private function __construct($username, bool $repos) {
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$request = 'https://api.github.com/users/' . $username;
$request .= ($repos) ? '/repos' : "";
$res = $client->request('GET', $request);
$this->api_handler = json_decode($res->getBody()->getContents(), true);
}
public static function createApiEngine($username, bool $repos)
{
return new self($username, $bool);
}
After inside your controller you can do this:
$api = ApiEngine::createApiEngine($username, false);
$api->getProfileData();
Into your controller you need to insert a use for ApiEngine, in this use case you don't need dependency injection so inside your services.yml remove arguments please