I'm trying to use the symfony2 service container.However when I construct each service I want to use some of the variables defined in my controller.I want to know whether that's possible and how to do it.or an alternative if the aforementioned is not possible.
p.s: I'm using the yml service definitions.
$_ws['configurator'] = cmfGetInitObject(); //returns an instance of cmlObj
$_ws['configurator']->setOptions(
array(
'configurationsFolderPath' => realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../configurations'),
'server' => &$_SERVER,
'legacyFormatEnabled' => true
)
);
$_ws['packageManager'] =& $_ws['configurator']->packageManager;
$_ws = $_ws['configurator']->load($_ws); //$_ws['configurator'] again resolves to a cmlObj
this is the array containing the configurations I mentioned.
You can't. The service container is created at the beginning of the request flow, while the controller is executed almost at the end of the flow.
If you really have not access to the required config in the container build phase of the request, you can use setters to set the values in the container and maybe use default values when building the service.
Even better would be to move this out of the controller and inside an event listener.
Related
I have asked this question yesterday as well, but this one includes code.
Issue
My application have multiple modules and 2 types of user accounts, Some modules are loaded always which are present in application.config.php some of them are conditional i.e. some are loaded for user type A and some for user type B
After going through documentations and questions on Stack Overflow, I understand some of ModuleManager functionalities and started implementing the logic that I though might work.
Some how I figured out a way to load the modules that are not present in application.config.php [SUCCESS] but their configuration is not working [THE ISSUE] i.e. if in onBootstrap method I get the ModuleManager service and do getLoadedModules() I get the list of all the modules correctly loaded. Afterwards if I try to get some service from that dynamically loaded module, it throws exception.
Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceManager::get was unable to fetch or create an instance for jobs_mapper
Please note that, the factories and all other stuff are perfectly fine because if I load the module from application.config.php it works fine
Similarly when I try to access any route from the dynamically loaded module it throws 404 Not Found which made it clear that the configuration from module.config.php of these modules are not loading even though the module is loaded by ModuleManager.
Code
In Module.php of my Application module I implemented InitProviderInterface and added a method init(ModuleManager $moduleManager) where I catch the moduleManager loadModules.post event trigger and load modules
public function init(\Zend\ModuleManager\ModuleManagerInterface $moduleManager)
{
$eventManager = $moduleManager->getEventManager();
$eventManager->attach(\Zend\ModuleManager\ModuleEvent::EVENT_LOAD_MODULES_POST, [$this, 'onLoadModulesPost']);
}
Then in the same class I delcare the method onLoadModulesPost and start loading my dynamic modules
public function onLoadModulesPost(\Zend\ModuleManager\ModuleEvent $event)
{
/* #var $serviceManager \Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceManager */
$serviceManager = $event->getParam('ServiceManager');
$configListener = $event->getConfigListener();
$authentication = $serviceManager->get('zfcuser_auth_service');
if ($authentication->getIdentity())
{
$moduleManager = $event->getTarget();
...
...
$loadedModules = $moduleManager->getModules();
$configListener = $event->getConfigListener();
$configuration = $configListener->getMergedConfig(false);
$modules = $modulesMapper->findAll(['is_agency' => 1, 'is_active' => 1]);
foreach ($modules as $module)
{
if (!array_key_exists($module['module_name'], $loadedModules))
{
$loadedModule = $moduleManager->loadModule($module['module_name']);
//Add modules to the modules array from ModuleManager.php
$loadedModules[] = $module['module_name'];
//Get the loaded module
$module = $moduleManager->getModule($module['module_name']);
//If module is loaded succesfully, merge the configs
if (($loadedModule instanceof ConfigProviderInterface) || (is_callable([$loadedModule, 'getConfig'])))
{
$moduleConfig = $module->getConfig();
$configuration = ArrayUtils::merge($configuration, $moduleConfig);
}
}
}
$moduleManager->setModules($loadedModules);
$configListener->setMergedConfig($configuration);
$event->setConfigListener($configListener);
}
}
Questions
Is it possible to achieve what I am trying ?
If so, what is the best way ?
What am I missing in my code ?
I think there is some fundamental mistake in what you are trying to do here: you are trying to load modules based on merged configuration, and therefore creating a cyclic dependency between modules and merged configuration.
I would advise against this.
Instead, if you have logic that defines which part of an application is to be loaded, put it in config/application.config.php, which is responsible for retrieving the list of modules.
At this stage though, it is too early to depend on any service, as service definition depends on the merged configuration too.
Another thing to clarify is that you are trying to take these decisions depending on whether the authenticated user (request information, rather than environment information) matches a certain criteria, and then modifying the entire application based on that.
Don't do that: instead, move the decision into the component that is to be enabled/disabled conditionally, by putting a guard in front of it.
What you're asking can be done, but that doesn't mean you should.
Suggesting an appropriate solution without knowing the complexity of the application you're building is difficult.
Using guards will certainly help decouple your code, however using it alone doesn't address scalability and maintainability, if that's a concern?
I'd suggest using stateless token-based authentication. Instead of maintaining the validation logic in every application, write the validation logic at one common place so that every request can make use of that logic irrespective of application. Choosing a reverse proxy server (Nginx) to maintain the validation logic (with the help of Lua) gives you the flexibility to develop your application in any language.
More to the point, validating the credentials at the load balancer level essentially eliminates the need for the session state, you can have many separate servers, running on multiple platforms and domains, reusing the same token for authenticating the user.
Identifying the user, account type and loading different modules then becomes a trivial task. By simply passing the token information via an environment variable, it can be read within your config/application.config.php file, without needing to access the database, cache or other services beforehand.
I have an odd app set up, multiple sub domains all pointing to the same Symfony2 install.
The subdomain simply changes a single parameter within the application so that different content is loaded.
This parameter is being cached however, so visiting a.site.com and then b.site.com makes A's content appear rather than B's.
Is there another approach I can use?
Is there a way I can add this parameter the cache's hash or something similar so that when the parameter changes within the app the content can change.
I am using this method to pass the constant from the sub domain into the Symfony2 application
How to pass a PHP constant as service argument in Symfony 2?
You can use Symfony's Request Object to get the URL and parse that for the subdomain. Use that to create your configuration parameter because it won't be cached.
Like this:
echo $request->getUri();
Symfony's API can be a great resource, but a bit hard to read. http://api.symfony.com/2.6/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Request.html
I ended up writing a service to parse the host name, that service was then available within my Controllers.
class GameSystem {
public function getGameSystemName()
{
$ar = explode(".", $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
$first = reset($ar);
$game_system_short_name = strtolower($first);
return $game_system_short_name;
}
}
Initially I had tried to use the constant value set in each subdomain's index file. But this was failing and having some really odd effects.
I have a Yaml loader that loads additional config items for a "profile" (where one application can use different profiles, e.g. for different local editions of the same site).
My loader is very simple:
# YamlProfileLoader.php
use Symfony\Component\Config\Loader\FileLoader;
use Symfony\Component\Yaml\Yaml;
class YamlProfileLoader extends FileLoader
{
public function load($resource, $type = null)
{
$configValues = Yaml::parse($resource);
return $configValues;
}
public function supports($resource, $type = null)
{
return is_string($resource) && 'yml' === pathinfo(
$resource,
PATHINFO_EXTENSION
);
}
}
The loader is used more or less like this (simplified a bit, because there is caching too):
$loaderResolver = new LoaderResolver(array(new YamlProfileLoader($locator)));
$delegatingLoader = new DelegatingLoader($loaderResolver);
foreach ($yamlProfileFiles as $yamlProfileFile) {
$profileName = basename($yamlProfileFile, '.yml');
$profiles[$profileName] = $delegatingLoader->load($yamlProfileFile);
}
So is the Yaml file it's parsing:
# profiles/germany.yml
locale: de_DE
hostname: %profiles.germany.host_name%
At the moment, the resulting array contains literally '%profiles.germany.host_name%' for the 'hostname' array key.
So, how can I parse the % parameters to get the actual parameter values?
I've been trawling through the Symfony 2 code and docs (and this SO question and can't find where this is done within the framework itself. I could probably write my own parameter parser - get the parameters from the kernel, search for the %foo% strings and look-up/replace... but if there's a component ready to be used, I prefer to use this.
To give a bit more background, why I can't just include it into the main config.yml: I want to be able to load app/config/profiles/*.yml, where * is the profile name, and I am using my own Loader to accomplish this. If there's a way to wildcard import config files, then that might also work for me.
Note: currently using 2.4 but just about ready to upgrade to 2.5 if that helps.
I've been trawling through the Symfony 2 code and docs (and this SO question and can't find where this is done within the framework itself.
Symfony's dependency injection component uses a compiler pass to resolve parameter references during the optimisation phase.
The Compiler gets the registered compiler passes from its PassConfig instance. This class configures a few compiler passes by default, which includes the ResolveParameterPlaceHoldersPass.
During container compilation, the ResolveParameterPlaceHoldersPass uses the Container's ParameterBag to resolve strings containing %parameters%. The compiler pass then sets that resolved value back into the container.
So, how can I parse the % parameters to get the actual parameter values?
You'd need access to the container in your ProfileLoader (or wherever you see fit). Using the container, you can recursively iterate over your parsed yaml config and pass values to the container's parameter bag to be resolved via the resolveValue() method.
Seems to me like perhaps a cleaner approach would be for you to implement this in your bundle configuration. That way your config will be validated against a defined structure, which can catch configuration errors early. See the docs on bundle configuration for more information (that link is for v2.7, but hopefully will apply to your version also).
I realise this is an old question, but I have spent quite a while figuring this out for my own projects, so I'm posting the answer here for future reference.
I tried a lot of options to resolve %parameter% to parameters.yml but no luck at all. All I can think of is parsing %parameter% and fetch it from container, no innovation yet.
On the other hand I don't have enough information about your environment to see the big picture but I just come up with another idea. It can be quite handy if you declare your profiles in your parameters.yml file and load it as an array in your controller or service via container.
app/config/parameters.yml
parameters:
profiles:
germany:
locale: de_DE
host_name: http://de.example.com
uk:
locale: en_EN
host_name: http://uk.example.com
turkey:
locale: tr_TR
host_name: http://tr.example.com
You can have all your profiles as an array in your controller.
<?php
namespace Acme\DemoBundle\Controller;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
class DefaultController extends Controller
{
public function indexAction()
{
$profiles = $this->container->getParameter('profiles');
var_dump($profiles);
return $this->render('AcmeDemoBundle:Default:index.html.twig');
}
}
With this approach
you don't have to code a custom YamlLoader
you don't have to worry about importing parameters into other yml files
you can have your profiles as an array anytime you have the $container in your hand
you don't have to load/cache profile files one by one
you don't have to find a wildcard file loading solution
If I got your question correctly, this approach can help you.
I need to run a php script once before my zend framework application is bootstrapped and run. This works now by calling this initial script in my /public/index.php, however the script is run for all subsequent zend framework page requests as well. I need this script to only be run once on the initial request and not again when additional pages are loaded via ajax.
My initial attempts were to set some php constants in the /public/index.php file like so:
if (!defined('SOME_VAR')) require_once 'path/to/script/to/run/once.php';
define('SOME_VAR', '1);
However, when another page is loaded via ajax, even though I've defined 'SOME_VAR', it doesn't persist and stay as defined and the script is executed again.
I'm using Zend Framework 1.11, Apache (Xampp).
Executing this script AFTER Zend has been bootstrapped and run (inside Zend Framework) is not an option.
Constants don't work because they only exist for the duration of the request.
It sounds like you want to figure out if the current request is a regular request or an XmlHttpRequest (AJAX) request.
You could try something like this at the top of your index.php:
<?php
define('IS_AJAX_REQUEST', isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH'])
&& strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) == 'xmlhttprequest');
if (! IS_AJAX_REQUEST){
// run your code.
}
If you're using sessions, you could also just set a flag in the session once you special code has been run, and test for that.
According to the Zend Framework Documentation:
However, should custom initialization be necessary, you have two choices. First, you can write methods prefixed with _init to specify discrete code to bootstrap. These methods will be called by bootstrap(), and can also be called as if they were public methods: bootstrap(). They should accept an optional array of options.
If your resource method returns a value, it will be stored in a container in the bootstrap. This can be useful when different resources need to interact (such as one resource injecting itself into another). The method getResource() can then be used to retrieve those values.
The other option is to use resource plugins. Resource plugins are objects that perform specific initializations, and may be specified:
When instantiating the Zend_Application object
During initialization of the bootstrap object
By explicitly enabling them via method calls to the bootstrap object
Resource plugins implement Zend_Application_Resource_ResourceAbstract, which defines simply that they allow injection of the caller and options, and that they have an init() method.
Can someone explain what a compilerpass is?
CompilerPass implementations are some kind of listeners that are executed after dependency injection container is built from configuration files and before it is saved as plain PHP in cache. They are used to build some structures that requires access to definitions from outer resources or need some programming that is not available in XML/YAML configuration. You can consider them as "final filters" that can modify entire DIC.
Let's consider a TwigBundle and its TwigEnvironmentPass. What it does is quite simple:
Fetch a reference to twig service (defined as <service id="twig" class="..." ...>)
Find all services that has been tagged with twig.extension tag. To do that you have work on complete DIC (built from XML configuration files) as those services might be defined in any bundle.
Build a custom code for service creation method.
As a final result the following code will be generated:
protected function getTwigService()
{
$this->services['twig'] = $instance = new \Twig_Environment($this->get('twig.loader'), ...);
// THIS HAS BEEN ADDED THANKS TO THE TwigEnvironmentPass:
$instance->addExtension(new \Symfony\Bundle\SecurityBundle\Twig\Extension\SecurityExtension($this->get('security.context')));
$instance->addExtension(new \Symfony\Bundle\TwigBundle\Extension\TransExtension($this->get('translator')));
$instance->addExtension(new \Symfony\Bundle\TwigBundle\Extension\TemplatingExtension($this));
$instance->addExtension(new \Symfony\Bundle\TwigBundle\Extension\FormExtension(array(0 => 'TwigBundle::form.html.twig', 1 => 'SiteBundle::widgets.html.twig')));
$instance->addExtension(new \MyProject\SiteBundle\Twig\Extension\MyVeryOwnExtensionToTwig($this));
return $instance;
}