Previously, the Definition class was used both for type inference and factory construction (if factoryService was absent). This is fine for cases where classes create instances of themselves (e.g. getInstance() or create()), but leads to ambiguity when we have a separate factory class.
Restructured config format to make processing more straightforward. Important changes that might break existing configs:
* Added "enabled" option for translator (improves multi-format compat)
* Removed hash variation of validation annotations option (only boolean)
* Moved namespace option directly under validation (improves multi-format compat)
The new merge process depends on an internal array of all supported options and their default values, which is used for both validating the config schema and inferring how to merge options (as an added benefit, it helps make the extension self-documenting). Exceptions will now be thrown for merge errors resulting from unrecognized options or invalid types. Since incoming configurations are all merged atop the defaults, many isset() checks were removed. As a rule of thumb, we probably only want to ignore null values when an option would be used to set a parameter.
Also:
* Added missing attributes to symfony-1.0.xsd
* profiler: added only-exceptions attribute
* session: fix types and add pdo attributes
* Create FrameworkExtension tests with PHP/XML/YAML fixtures
* Use "%" syntax instead of calling getParameter() within FrameworkExtension
* Normalize config keys and arrays with helper methods for PHP/XML/YAML compatibility
Earlier changes:
* Remove nonexistent "DependencyInjection/Resources/" path from XmlFileLoaders
* Remove hasDefinition() checks, as register methods should only execute once
* Remove first-run logic from registerTranslatorConfiguration(), as it is only run once
* Removed apparently obsolete clearTags() calls on definitions for non-enabled features
Separated validation of data and form had serious drawbacks. When a form had nested form whose data was not connected to the data of the root form, this data would not be validated.
The new implementation validates the whole object graph at once. Class Form has a new method validateData(), that manually passes the data to the GraphWalker of the Validator and overrides the Default group with the groups set in the form.
This is mainly intended for complex configurations to ease the work you
have with normalizing different configuration formats (YAML, XML, and PHP).
First, you have to set-up a config tree:
$treeBuilder = new TreeBuilder();
$tree = $treeBuilder
->root('security_config', 'array')
->node('access_denied_url', 'scalar')->end()
->normalize('encoder')
->node('encoders', 'array')
->key('class')
->prototype('array')
->before()->ifString()->then(function($v) { return array('algorithm' => $v); })->end()
->node('algorithm', 'scalar')->end()
->node('encode_as_base64', 'scalar')->end()
->node('iterations', 'scalar')->end()
->end()
->end()
->end()
->buildTree()
;
This tree and the metadata attached to the different nodes is then used
to intelligently transform the passed config array:
$normalizedConfig = $tree->normalize($config);
With the form factory there was no reasonable way to implement instantiation of custom form classes. So the implementation was changed to let the classes instantiate themselves. A FormContext instance with default settings has to be passed to the creation method. This context is by default configured in the DI container.
$context = $this->get('form.context');
// or
$context = FormContext::buildDefault();
$form = MyFormClass::create($context, 'author');
If you want to circumvent this process, you can also create a form manually. Remember that the services stored in the default context won't be available then unless you pass them explicitely.
$form = new MyFormClass('author');
A form now always has to be bound, independent of whether the request is a POST request or not. The bind() method detects itself whether the request was a post request or not and reads its data accordingly. The "old" bind()/isBound() methods were renamed to submit()/isSubmitted().
$form = new Form('author');
$form->bind($request, $author);
if ($form->isValid()) {
// isValid() implies isSubmitted(), non-submitted forms can
// never be valid
// do something with author now
}
Alternatively, you can only bind global variables, if you don't have a request object.
$form->bindGlobals($author);
Note that the $author object is in both cases optional. You can also pass no object at all and read the data using $form->getData(), but then no validation will occur. You can also prefill the form with an object during instantiation.
$form = new Form('author', array('data' => $author));
$form->bind($request);
// etc.
