Currently, ambiguities only arise for PHP files, as PhpFileLoader and AnnotationFileLoader would both claim support. Future conflicts may occur if the XML, YAML, or PHP loaders were to receive Directory and Glob loaders (as annotations have).
Since the "type" parameter is optional, loader resolution will default to awarding resolution to the first loader to claim support. A previous hack in PhpFileLoader to avoid an AnnotationFileLoader conflict was removed, so that should be the only lost backwards compatibility with this patch. Unit tests were also created for the various loader classes, although only the supports() method is being tested.
This implementation was proposed on the symfony-dev mailing list in response to Fabien's RFC for custom loader notation: http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs/browse_thread/thread/3104c1a9e45799d2/20fbe393c1afe088
When an object has a "main" many relation with related "things" (objects,
parameters, ...), the method names are normalized:
* get()
* set()
* all()
* replace()
* remove()
* clear()
* isEmpty()
* add()
* register()
* count()
* keys()
The classes below follow this method naming convention:
* BrowserKit\CookieJar -> Cookie
* BrowserKit\History -> Request
* Console\Application -> Command
* Console\Application\Helper\HelperSet -> HelperInterface
* DependencyInjection\Container -> services
* DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder -> services
* DependencyInjection\ParameterBag\ParameterBag -> parameters
* DependencyInjection\ParameterBag\FrozenParameterBag -> parameters
* DomCrawler\Form -> FormField
* EventDispatcher\Event -> parameters
* Form\FieldGroup -> Field
* HttpFoundation\HeaderBag -> headers
* HttpFoundation\ParameterBag -> parameters
* HttpFoundation\Session -> attributes
* HttpKernel\Profiler\Profiler -> DataCollectorInterface
* Routing\RouteCollection -> Route
* Security\Authentication\AuthenticationProviderManager -> AuthenticationProviderInterface
* Templating\Engine -> HelperInterface
* Translation\MessageCatalogue -> messages
The usage of these methods are only allowed when it is clear that there is a
main relation:
* a CookieJar has many Cookies;
* a Container has many services and many parameters (as services is the main
relation, we use the naming convention for this relation);
* a Console Input has many arguments and many options. There is no "main"
relation, and so the naming convention does not apply.
For many relations where the convention does not apply, the following methods
must be used instead (where XXX is the name of the related thing):
* get() -> getXXX()
* set() -> setXXX()
* all() -> getXXXs()
* replace() -> setXXXs()
* remove() -> removeXXX()
* clear() -> clearXXX()
* isEmpty() -> isEmptyXXX()
* add() -> addXXX()
* register() -> registerXXX()
* count() -> countXXX()
* keys()
This is not really a bug or a big issue, but if you need to temporarily empty a routes node, Symfony shouldn't care - it's not an actual validation failure (a routes node still makes sense without an route or import children).
