Making an entity repository container aware in Symfony2.1

I had a need to add ACL rules to entities at the repository level.

My biggest struggle was getting dependancy injection working.

This is what I finally came up with after a fresh mind and an instant coffee:

Comments

KingCrunch says: 16th February 2013 at 11:30 am

If your EntityRepository needs to know about the DIC, you made it wrong…

Wessel says: 13th June 2013 at 12:03 pm

Mmm nice trick.

I do get the idea of separation, however suppose I have a helper class with a lof of common string manipulations I have to do from and to the database in every entityRepository.

Pulling it out of the Container sounds a lot cleaner than duplicate the code?

Anyone have a proper idea how this would be handled correctly?

Thanks!

Kevin says: 26th February 2014 at 5:20 am

Why would you not want to use a trait to implement the string manipulation functions? Then each class that needs those functions can use the trait.