Using a Factory to Create Services

Symfony’s Service Container provides a powerful way of controlling the creation of objects, allowing you to specify arguments passed to the constructor as well as calling methods and setting parameters. Sometimes, however, this will not provide you with everything you need to construct your objects. For this situation, you can use a factory to create the object and tell the service container to call a method on the factory rather than directly instantiating the class.

Suppose you have a factory that configures and returns a new NewsletterManager object:

class NewsletterManagerFactory
{
    public static function createNewsletterManager()
    {
        $newsletterManager = new NewsletterManager();

        // ...

        return $newsletterManager;
    }
}

To make the NewsletterManager object available as a service, you can configure the service container to use the NewsletterManagerFactory factory class:

• YAML

  services:
      newsletter_manager:
          class:          NewsletterManager
          factory_class:  NewsletterManagerFactory
          factory_method: createNewsletterManager
  

• XML

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd">
  
      <services>
          <service
              id="newsletter_manager"
              class="NewsletterManager"
              factory-class="NewsletterManagerFactory"
              factory-method="createNewsletterManager" />
      </services>
  </services>
  

• PHP

  use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Definition;
  
  // ...
  $definition = new Definition('NewsletterManager');
  $definition->setFactoryClass('NewsletterManagerFactory');
  $definition->setFactoryMethod('createNewsletterManager');
  
  $container->setDefinition('newsletter_manager', $definition);
  

When you specify the class to use for the factory (via factory_class) the method will be called statically. If the factory itself should be instantiated and the resulting object’s method called, configure the factory itself as a service. In this case, the method (e.g. createNewsletterManager) should be changed to be non-static:

• YAML

  services:
      newsletter_manager_factory:
          class:            NewsletterManagerFactory
      newsletter_manager:
          class:            NewsletterManager
          factory_service:  newsletter_manager_factory
          factory_method:   createNewsletterManager
  

• XML

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd">
  
      <services>
          <service id="newsletter_manager_factory" class="NewsletterManagerFactory" />
  
          <service
              id="newsletter_manager"
              class="NewsletterManager"
              factory-service="newsletter_manager_factory"
              factory-method="createNewsletterManager" />
      </services>
  </container>
  

• PHP

  use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Definition;
  
  $container->setDefinition('newsletter_manager_factory', new Definition(
      'NewsletterManager'
  ));
  $container->setDefinition('newsletter_manager', new Definition(
      'NewsletterManagerFactory'
  ))->setFactoryService(
      'newsletter_manager_factory'
  )->setFactoryMethod(
      'createNewsletterManager'
  );
  

注解

The factory service is specified by its id name and not a reference to the service itself. So, you do not need to use the @ syntax for this in YAML configurations.

Passing Arguments to the Factory Method

If you need to pass arguments to the factory method, you can use the arguments options inside the service container. For example, suppose the createNewsletterManager method in the previous example takes the templating service as an argument:

• YAML

  services:
      newsletter_manager_factory:
          class:            NewsletterManagerFactory
      newsletter_manager:
          class:            NewsletterManager
          factory_service:  newsletter_manager_factory
          factory_method:   createNewsletterManager
          arguments:
              - "@templating"
  

• XML

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  <container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd">
  
      <services>
          <service id="newsletter_manager_factory" class="NewsletterManagerFactory" />
  
          <service
              id="newsletter_manager"
              class="NewsletterManager"
              factory-service="newsletter_manager_factory"
              factory-method="createNewsletterManager">
  
              <argument type="service" id="templating" />
          </service>
      </services>
  </container>
  

• PHP

  use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Definition;
  
  // ...
  $container->setDefinition('newsletter_manager_factory', new Definition(
      'NewsletterManagerFactory'
  ));
  $container->setDefinition('newsletter_manager', new Definition(
      'NewsletterManager',
      array(new Reference('templating'))
  ))->setFactoryService(
      'newsletter_manager_factory'
  )->setFactoryMethod(
      'createNewsletterManager'
  );