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Are you tired to add CompilerPasses just to collect some services tagged on your container?

Say NO to most of them with this bundle!

⚠ Note ⚠

Mind the namespace change

Before 0.4.0: Berny\Bundle\TagBundle
After 0.4.0: xPheRe\Bundle\TagBundle

Why I would want that?

More than often you want to search for services tagged with a particular tag and call some method in your service with them. This can be done with a custom CompilerPass.

services:
    my_plugin_enumerator:
        class: PluginEnumerator

    useless_plugin:
        class: UselessPlugin
        tag: - { name: my_plugin }

    even_more_useless_plugin:
        class: EvenMoreUselessPlugin
        tag: - { name: my_plugin }

class PluginEnumeratorConsumerCompilerPass implements CompilerPassInterface
{
    public function process(ContainerBuilder $container)
    {
        if (!$container->has('my_plugin_enumerator')) {
            return;
        }

        $definition = $container->findDefinition('my_plugin_enumerator');

        $taggedServices = $container->findTaggedServices('my_plugin');

        foreach ($taggedServices as $id => $attributes) {
            $definition->addMethodCall('addPlugin', array(new Reference($id)));
        }
    }
}

Another use case is to inject a service to every other that is tagged with a particular tag. An example:

services:
    my_event_dispatcher:
        class: MyEventDispatcher

    useless_service:
        class: UselessService
        tag: - { name: my_event_dispatcher.aware }

    even_more_useless_service:
        class: EvenMoreUselessService
        tag: - { name: my_event_dispatcher.aware }

class MyEventDispatcherInjectableCompilerPass implements CompilerPassInterface
{
    public function process(ContainerBuilder $container)
    {
        if (!$container->has('my_event_dispatcher')) {
            return;
        }

        $reference = new Reference('my_event_dispatcher');
        $taggedServices = $container->findTaggedServices('my_event_dispatcher.aware');

        foreach ($taggedServices as $id => $attributes) {
            $definition = $container->findDefinition($id);
            $definition->addMethodCall('setMyEventDispatcher', array($reference));
        }
    }
}

This boilerplate is repeated once and again in every project I've seen. With this bundle you can say goodbye to most of this compiler passes.

Features

With this bundle you can:

Tag a service as a consumer of another tag.
Tag a service as injectable into others.

Compatibility

Tested under Symfony2, from 2.0.10 to 2.6.3

Installation

From composer/packagist

Require xphere/tag-bundle package in your composer
Add the bundle to your AppKernel.php

Usage

Consumer

You can define a service as a "tag consumer" of another tag, and let the bundle make the relationship between them. Just tag your service as a tag.consumer and specify which tag to collect and which method to call.

The first example using this bundle is just configuration:

services:
    my_plugin_enumerator:
        class: PluginEnumerator
        tags:
            - { name: tag.consumer, tag: my_plugin, method: addPlugin }

    useless_plugin:
        class: UselessPlugin
        tag: - { name: my_plugin }

    even_more_useless_plugin:
        class: EvenMoreUselessPlugin
        tag: - { name: my_plugin }

The only change is the tag in my_plugin_enumerator. The CompilerPass boilerplate is gone.

This calls PluginEnumerator::addPlugin with each my_plugin, but you can also call this once with all services using the bulk parameter.

services:
    my_plugin_enumerator:
        class: PluginEnumerator
        tags:
            - { name: tag.consumer, tag: my_plugin, method: addPlugins, bulk: true }

This is calling PluginEnumerator::addPlugins just once, with an array of the services.

To make the service consume its dependencies through it's constructor, just omit the method attribute in the tag.

Injectable

You can define a service as a "tag injectable" from another tag, and let the bundle do the hard work. Just tag your service as a tag.injectable and specify which tag to collect and which method to call in each service.

The second example in the introduction will be like this:

services:
    my_event_dispatcher:
        class: MyEventDispatcher
        tag: - { name: tag.injectable, tag: my_event_dispatcher.aware, method: setMyEventDispatcher }

    useless_service:
        class: UselessService
        tag: - { name: my_event_dispatcher.aware }

    even_more_useless_service:
        class: EvenMoreUselessService
        tag: - { name: my_event_dispatcher.aware }

The only change is the tag in my_event_dispatcher. The CompilerPass boilerplate is also gone.

This forces all my_event_dispatcher.aware to have a setMyEventDispatcher method. But you can change that for a particular service with the method parameter.

services:
    my_event_dispatcher:
        class: MyEventDispatcher
        tag: - { name: tag.injectable, tag: my_event_dispatcher.aware, method: setMyEventDispatcher }

    useless_service:
        class: UselessService
        tag: - { name: my_event_dispatcher.aware, method: setEventDispatcher }

    even_more_useless_service:
        class: EvenMoreUselessService
        tag: - { name: my_event_dispatcher.aware }

Now it's calling setEventDispatcher for UselessService, and the default method for the others.

Advanced usage

That's all about the basics, there are more options available for major control over your dependencies, though.

Order

You can specify the order in which services will be injected into the consumer with the order field in each tag. Lower orderings have priority over higher orders. Tagged services with no order will be injected after ordered ones. In case of a tie between orders, keeps symfony declaration order.

Indexing bulk services

When bulk is active, you can specify a key which will be used to index each tag, instead of a plain array.

services:
    my_command_bus:
        class: MyCommandBus
        tags:
            - { name: tag.consumer, tag: my_command_handler, bulk: true, key: handles }

    my_class_command_handler:
        class: MyClassCommandHandler
        tag: - { name: my_command_handler, handles: MyClass }

    other_class_command_handler:
        class: OtherClassCommandHandler
        tag: - { name: my_command_handler, handles: OtherClass }

This results in the next injection:

[
    'MyClass' => new MyClassCommandHandler(),
    'OtherClass' => new OtherClassCommandHandler(),
]

You can also specify that multiple elements will collide with same index and needs to collect arrays instead of single services with the multiple field in your consumer definition.

services:
    my_event_bus:
        class: MyEventBus
        tags:
            - { name: tag.consumer, tag: my_event_handler, bulk: true, key: listensTo, multiple: true }

    first_event_handler:
        class: FirstEventHandler
        tag: - { name: my_event_handler, listensTo: MyEvent }

    second_event_handler:
        class: SecondEventHandler
        tag: - { name: my_event_handler, listensTo: OtherEvent }

    third_event_handler:
        class: ThirdEventHandler
        tag: - { name: my_event_handler, listensTo: MyEvent }

This results in the next injection:

[
    'MyEvent' => [
        new FirstEventHandler(),
        new ThirdEventHandler(),
    ],
    'OtherEvent' => [
        new SecondEventHandler(),
    ],
]

Multiple also honors ordering, if specified.

Reference

As usual, dependencies are injected directly to your service, but you can inject your dependencies as service ids instead by setting the field reference to false in your consumer definition.

InstanceOf

You can force your dependencies to be an instance of a class or interface with the field instanceof in your consumer definition.

No bundle

You can add manually TagConsumerPass or TagInjectablePass (or both) without adding the "whole" bundle to your Kernel, even customize the tag names used to apply them.

In your Kernel:

[...]
use xPheRe\Bundle\TagBundle\DependencyInjection\Compiler\TagConsumerPass;
use xPheRe\Bundle\TagBundle\DependencyInjection\Compiler\TagInjectablePass;
[...]

class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
    [...]
    protected function prepareContainer(ContainerBuilder $container)
    {
        parent::prepareContainer($container);

        $container->addCompilerPass(new TagConsumerPass('tag_collector'));
        $container->addCompilerPass(new TagInjectablePass('tag_injectable'));
    }
    [...]
}

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