How to generate absolute assets url for non-http request - php

Question

Since Symfony-2.7 the asset's method 3rd argument (a boolean that indicates whether to generate an absolute url) was deprecated.
From sources:
#trigger_error('Generating absolute URLs with the Twig asset() function was deprecated in 2.7 and will be removed in 3.0. Please use absolute_url() instead.', E_USER_DEPRECATED);
So the official way to generate it in a Symfony-3.0 compatible way became:
{{ absolute_url(asset('some/asset.css')) }}
The problem though is that the HttpFoundationExtension that provides the absolute_url relies on the "request stack" which is empty in case of non-http request.
So it returns the original path without any transformations:
if (!$request = $this->requestStack->getMasterRequest()) {
return $path;
}
https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/2.7/src/Symfony/Bridge/Twig/Extension/HttpFoundationExtension.php#L59
So the question is - how to generate a full url in a CLI-based application?
An important note: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/console/sending_emails.html this advice is not actual when you use absolute_url helper.

Answer 1

Try pushing dummy request object to request_stack service, also configure request context in parameters.yml as said in sending_emails.html
$request = new Request();
// if you use locales
$request->setLocale("en");
// to be able to render twig asset absolute paths we have to inject dummy request
$container->enterScope('request');
$container->set('request', $request, 'request');
$container->get('request_stack')->push($request);