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Slim Framework Service Manager

The Service Loader is used to prepare services for a Slim Framework app based on service config.

The name of all services registered with the service manager are all prefixed with an '@' symbol. Therefore, as service name of this_service will be registered as @this_service.

Usage

Here's a quick example of how to use the Service Loader...

// Define the services 
$config = [
    'services' => [
        'serviceOne' => [
            'class' => 'ServiceOne',
            'arguments' => ['a', 'b', 'c', '@serviceTwo'],
            'tags' => [
                ['tagName', ['tagArg1', 'tagArg2' => 'tagsArg2Value']]
            ],
        ],
        'serviceTwo' => [
            'class' => 'Namespace\ServiceTwo',
            'calls' => [
                ['setServiceThree', ['@ServiceThree']]
            ]
        ],
        'serviceThree' => [
            'class' => 'Namespace\ServiceThree'
        ],
    ]
];

$app = new Slim($config);

$serviceManagerOptions = [
    'registerAsService' => true,              // default value
    'ownServiceName'    => 'service_manager', // default value
    'autoload'          => true               // default value
    'registerApp'       => true               // default value
];

new ServiceManager($app, $serviceManagerOptions);

First of all, add a 'services' element to the config that you pass into your Slim object.

 $config = [
     'services' => [
         'serviceOne' => [
             'class' => 'ServiceOne',
             'arguments' => ['a', 'b', 'c', '@serviceTwo'],
         ],
         'serviceTwo' => [
             'class' => 'Namespace\ServiceTwo',
             'calls' => [
                 ['setServiceThree', ['@ServiceThree']]
             ]
         ],
         'serviceThree' => [
             'class' => 'Namespace\ServiceThree'
         ],
     ]
 ];

 $app = new Slim($config);

Then all you need to do is instantiate the ServiceManager object, passing in the App, with the optional config options. This example shows the default values for the config options.

 $serviceManagerOptions = [
     'registerAsService' => true,              // default value
     'ownServiceName'    => 'service_manager', // default value
     'autoload'          => true               // default value
     'registerApp'       => true               // default value
 ];
 
 new ServiceManager($app, $serviceManagerOptions);

Service Definition

The Service definition should be an array of items, with the key as the name the service will be registered under, and the value an array of settings as follows...

class

Require

The full class name to be used to instantiate the service object.

arguments

Optional

An array of arguments that will be passed to the service object constructor.

String values beginning with an '@' will be substituted with the service with the name matching the string, less the leading '@'.

calls

Optional

An array containing details of each additional method to be called on the initialised service object. Each entry in the array should be an array with the first item being the name of the method to be called, and an optional second array item that will be used as the arguments for the method call.

As with the arguments, any string that begins with an '@' within the arguments array will be substituted with the service registered with the name matching the string, less the leading '@'.

Arguments

Here's an explanation of each of the options...

Options

The second argument to the constructor...

options.autoload

Whether to automatically register the services during instantiation

options.ownServiceName

Default: 'service_manager'

The name to use if/when registering the Service Manager as a service.

options.registerApp

Default: true

If set to true the service manager will register the app as a service using the key @app.

options.registerAsService

Default: true

If set to true the service manager will register itself as a service using the value of the ownServiceName setting.

ServiceManager Methods

The following methods are available on the ServiceManager...

registerApp()

Registers the app as a service. Only needs to be called if options.registerApp setting is false, otherwise this is called automatically.

setupServices()

Loads all the services. This is called automatically if options.autoload is set to false

registerSelfAsService()

Registers the ServiceManager as a service using the options.ownServiceName value (or the default). This is automatically called if options.registerAsService is true.

getService($serviceName)

Returns the service with the given name.

getTaggedServices($tagName)

Returns an array of services that are tagged with the given tag.

The returns array will contain the registered service name, prefixed with an '@' as the key, and the ServiceDefinition object as the value.

Other Classes

ServiceDefinition

This class is used when registering a service. It's used over a regular closure to allow the service name and config to be stored in the object.

The __invoke() method is used to instantiate the service object when requested.

MethodCallDefinition

This class stores any calls on the method on instantiation, as defined by the calls part of the service definition.

Tag

This class stores the name and arguments of each tag as defined by the tags part of the service definition.

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