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.
The Request constructor no longer uses values from PHP's super globals. If you want a Request populated with these values you must use the new static method Request::fromGlobals().
Your front controllers (i.e. web/app.php, web/app_dev.php ...) will need to be updated:
// old
$kernel->handle(new Request())->send();
// new
$kernel->handle(Request::fromGlobals())->send();
A class in Symfony2 can be loaded by four different mechanisms:
* bootstrap.php: This file contains classes that are always required and
needed very early in the request handling;
* classes.php: This file contains classes that are always required and
managed by extensions via addClassesToCompile();
* MapFileClassLoader: This autoloader uses a map of class/file to load
classes (classes are managed by extensions via addClassesToAutoloadMap(),
and should contain often used classes);
* UniversalAutolaoder: This autoloader loads all other classes (it's the
slowest one).
The three notification methods do not return the Event instance anymore.
notify() does not return anything
notifyUntil() returns the returned value of the event that has processed the event
filter() returns the filtered value
Upgrading your listeners:
Listeners for notify() and filter() events: nothing to change
Listeners for notifyUntil() events:
Before:
$event->setReturnValue('foo');
return true;
After:
$event->setProcessed();
return 'foo';
If you notify events, the processing also need to be changed:
For filter() notifications: the filtered value is now available as
the returned value of the filter() method.
For notifyUntil() notifications:
Before:
$event = $dispatcher->notifyUntil($event);
if ($event->isProcessed()) {
$ret = $event->getReturnValue();
// do something with $ret
}
After:
$ret = $dispatcher->notifyUntil($event);
if ($event->isProcessed()) {
// do something with $ret
}
* Added empty_value option on CountryField, LanguageField, LocaleField, TimezoneField
* Added missing date_pattern to DateTimeField
* Made the currency option on MoneyField required.
To benefit from the optimization, you need to change this line from your
autoload.php:
require_once $vendorDir.'/symfony/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/UniversalClassLoader.php';
to this one:
require_once $vendorDir.'/symfony/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/bootstrap.php';
Notice that if you don't do this change, your app will in fact be slower than before.
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
* The register() method on all listeners has been removed
* Instead, the information is now put directly in the DIC tag
For instance, a listener on core.request had this method:
public function register(EventDispatcher $dispatcher, $priority = 0)
{
$dispatcher->connect('core.response', array($this, 'filter'), $priority);
}
And this tag in the DIC configuration:
<tag name="kernel.listener" />
Now, it only has the following configuration:
<tag name="kernel.listener" event="core.response" method="filter" priority="0" />
The event and method attributes are now mandatory.
You must now explicitly register the templating engine you want to use:
<app:templating>
<app:engine id="twig" />
</app:templating>
app.templating:
engines: ['twig']
Symfony2 comes with two such engines: 'twig', and 'php'.
I believe the empty_value option is just a leftover Django-style option for what value the field should have if left blank. I don't see this doing anything and find no reference to anything like it anywhere else.
The separator option functionality is currently handled as a parameter in the field render functions. I think this should be moved to an option on the field, but this reflects teh current functionality (i.e. this option is not used).
This adds lazy loading for firewall configurations. This is useful when you have multiple firewalls, only the firewalls which are actually needed to process the Request are initialized. So, your event dispatcher is not as costly to initialize anymore.
It also implements re-using of RequestMatchers if all matching rules are the same, and exposes the remaining rules which are already implemented by the request matcher (host, ip, methods) in the access-control section
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" />