Here are the new simplified rules:
* Required cache warmers are *always* executed when the Kernel boots for the first time;
* Optional cache warmers are *only* executed from the CLI via cache:warmup
These new rules means that all the configuration settings for the cache
warmers have been removed. So, if you want the best performance, remember to
warmup the cache when going to production.
This also fixed quite a few bugs.
As it has recently been discussed [on the mailing-list][1], windows doesn't
support symlinks for the assets:install command. In order to avoid a 'call to
undefined-function'-message in this case, this patch adds an exception which
will be thrown when the symlink-funktion isn't present and the
`--symlink`-Option was specified.
[1]: https://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs/browse_thread/thread/4b8ad9634bdab155
This is mirrored off of the messages used by git flow and serves to give the user some initial direction (and to avoid "forgetting" the setup steps).
I realize that I've hardcoded documentation URLs into this task, but I think the benefit outweighs the cost of needing to make sure these are always up-to-date.
This command uses a new container pass which dumps the ContainerBuilder into a cache file by serializing it. It's possible that we don't want this to run when kernel.debug = false, but I don't see the harm of generating the file and running the container:debug in, for example, the prod environment seems to make sense.
* Added the --format parameter to the InitBundleCommand.php file
* Moved all the non-format-dependent files from Resources/skeleton/bundle to Resources/skeleton/bundle/generic
* Created Resources/skeleton/bundle/[php,yml,xml] subfolders containing the files config/routing.[xml,yml,php]
Cache warmer will come in the next commits.
To warm up the cache on a production server, you can use
the cache:warmup command:
./app/console_prod cache:warmup
Before I explain the changes, let's talk about the current state.
Before this patch, the registerBundleDirs() method returned an ordered (for
resource overloading) list of namespace prefixes and the path to their
location. Here are some problems with this approach:
* The paths set by this method and the paths configured for the autoloader
can be disconnected (leading to unexpected behaviors);
* A bundle outside these paths worked, but unexpected behavior can occur;
* Choosing a bundle namespace was limited to the registered namespace
prefixes, and their number should stay low enough (for performance reasons)
-- moreover the current Bundle\ and Application\ top namespaces does not
respect the standard rules for namespaces (first segment should be the
vendor name);
* Developers must understand the concept of "namespace prefixes" to
understand the overloading mechanism, which is one more thing to learn,
which is Symfony specific;
* Each time you want to get a resource that can be overloaded (a template for
instance), Symfony would have tried all namespace prefixes one after the
other until if finds a matching file. But that can be computed in advance
to reduce the overhead.
Another topic which was not really well addressed is how you can reference a
file/resource from a bundle (and take into account the possibility of
overloading). For instance, in the routing, you can import a file from a
bundle like this:
<import resource="FrameworkBundle/Resources/config/internal.xml" />
Again, this works only because we have a limited number of possible namespace
prefixes.
This patch addresses these problems and some more.
First, the registerBundleDirs() method has been removed. It means that you are
now free to use any namespace for your bundles. No need to have specific
prefixes anymore. You are also free to store them anywhere, in as many
directories as you want. You just need to be sure that they are autoloaded
correctly.
The bundle "name" is now always the short name of the bundle class (like
FrameworkBundle or SensioCasBundle). As the best practice is to prefix the
bundle name with the vendor name, it's up to the vendor to ensure that each
bundle name is unique. I insist that a bundle name must be unique. This was
the opposite before as two bundles with the same name was how Symfony2 found
inheritance.
A new getParent() method has been added to BundleInterface. It returns the
bundle name that the bundle overrides (this is optional of course). That way,
there is no ordering problem anymore as the inheritance tree is explicitely
defined by the bundle themselves.
So, with this system, we can easily have an inheritance tree like the
following:
FooBundle < MyFooBundle < MyCustomFooBundle
MyCustomFooBundle returns MyFooBundle for the getParent() method, and
MyFooBundle returns FooBundle.
If two bundles override the same bundle, an exception is thrown.
Based on the bundle name, you can now reference any resource with this
notation:
@FooBundle/Resources/config/routing.xml
@FooBundle/Controller/FooController.php
This notation is the input of the Kernel::locateResource() method, which
returns the location of the file (and of course it takes into account
overloading).
So, in the routing, you can now use the following:
<import resource="@FrameworkBundle/Resources/config/internal.xml" />
The template loading mechanism also use this method under the hood.
As a bonus, all the code that converts from internal notations to file names
(controller names: ControllerNameParser, template names: TemplateNameParser,
resource paths, ...) is now contained in several well-defined classes. The
same goes for the code that look for templates (TemplateLocator), routing
files (FileLocator), ...
As a side note, it is really easy to also support multiple-inheritance for a
bundle (for instance if a bundle returns an array of bundle names it extends).
However, this is not implemented in this patch as I'm not sure we want to
support that.
How to upgrade:
* Each bundle must now implement two new mandatory methods: getPath() and
getNamespace(), and optionally the getParent() method if the bundle extends
another one. Here is a common implementation for these methods:
/**
* {@inheritdoc}
*/
public function getParent()
{
return 'MyFrameworkBundle';
}
/**
* {@inheritdoc}
*/
public function getNamespace()
{
return __NAMESPACE__;
}
/**
* {@inheritdoc}
*/
public function getPath()
{
return strtr(__DIR__, '\\', '/');
}
* The registerBundleDirs() can be removed from your Kernel class;
* If your code relies on getBundleDirs() or the kernel.bundle_dirs parameter,
it should be upgraded to use the new interface (see Doctrine commands for
many example of such a change);
* When referencing a bundle, you must now always use its name (no more \ or /
in bundle names) -- this transition was already done for most things
before, and now applies to the routing as well;
* Imports in routing files must be changed:
Before: <import resource="Sensio/CasBundle/Resources/config/internal.xml" />
After: <import resource="@SensioCasBundle/Resources/config/internal.xml" />
Let's take some examples to explain the change.
First, if you don't use any vendored bundles, this commit does not change anything.
So, let's say you use a FooBundle from Sensio. The files are stored under Bundle\Sensio\FooBundle.
And the Bundle class is Bundle\Sensio\FooBundle\SensioFooBundle.php.
Before the change, the bundle name ($bundle->getName()) would have returned 'FooBundle'.
Now it returns 'SensioFooBundle'.
Why does it matter? Well, it makes template names and controller names easier to read:
Before:
Template: Sensio\FooBundle:Bar:index.twig.html
Controller: Sensio\FooBundle:Bar:indexAction
After
Template: SensioFooBundle:Bar:index.twig.html
Controller: SensioFooBundle:Bar:indexAction
NB: Even if the change seems simple enough, the implementation is not. As finding
the namespace from the bundle class name is not trivial
NB2: If you don't follow the bundle name best practices, this will probably
leads to unexpected behaviors.
To keep language consistent, three methods were changed in InputOption:
* `InputOption::acceptParameter()` -> `InputOption::acceptValue()`
* `InputOption::isParameterRequired()` -> InputOption::isValueRequired()`
* `InputOption::isParameterOptional()` -> `InputOption::isValueOptional()`
The InputDefinition::asXml() method was also modified to update the `accept_value` and `is_value_required` attributes.
* removed the __call() method in Container: it means that now, there is only
one way to get a service: via the get() method;
* removed the $shared variable in the dumped Container classes (we now use
the $services variable from the parent class directly -- this is where we
have a performance improvement);
* optimized the PHP Dumper output.
