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.
Before
bundle:section:template.format.renderer
After
bundle:section:template.renderer.format
Notice that both the renderer and the format are mandatory.
* better separation of concerns
* made TwigBundle independant of the PHP Engine from FrameworkBundle (WIP)
* removed one layer of abstraction in the Templating component (renderers)
* made it easier to create a new Engine for any templating library
* made engines lazy-loaded (PHP engine for instance is not started if you only use Twig)
* reduces memory footprint (if you only use one engine)
* reduces size of compiled classes.php cache file
The SecurityFactories expect security services to have a consistent naming convention, which was not the case for providers defined as `{ id: another.service }`. These providers will now be aliased as "security.authentication.provider.[key]" and can be accessed in the same manner as other providers.
These helpers have been removed as they do not work as expected.
Among other things, the order is not the right one when using PHP
templates, and adding assets from an included template is not
possible when using Twig templates.
This should be replaced by integrating a third-party library that
manages assets: minification, compilation, packaging, ...
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
Previously, HttpKernel performed request-stashing. By moving this to the Kernel class, the request is now available immediately after the kernel becomes aware of it. If the kernel is allowed to boot lazily (during the first call to handle()), this also allows an actual master Request to be available during booting.
The old "request" service definition (with a bogus class name) can be replaced with a factory-aware definition that retrieves the request directly from the kernel.
The original HttpKernel class can be deleted, as it's request-stashing will be moved to the Kernel class. FrameworkBundle's list of compiled classes must also be modified to respect this change.
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.
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()
* 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 $services variable from the parent class directly -- this is where we
have a performance improvement);
* optimized the PHP Dumper output.
Support for theming in PHP templates has been dropped.
True theming should support theme inheritance, e.g. mytheme <- table <- default.
Currently, the Templating component does not support such inheritance. As the
only purpose of the themes so far was to style field groups with tables or
divs, and because automatic rendering of field groups/forms through the render()
method is discouraged and only recommended for rapid prototyping, themes are
dropped for now.
Modified the framework bundle to use validation => Symfony\Component\Validator\Validator defaults.
Enhanced Framework Extension validator configuration to allow to extend this configuration with
user-specified annotations, for example:
validation:
enabled: true
annotations:
namespaces:
myprojectvalidator: MyProject\Validator\
to register @myprojectvalidator:Validator(...)
Some explanations on how it works now:
* The Session is an optional dependency of the Request. If you create the
Request yourself (which is mandatory now in the front controller) and if
you don't inject a Session yourself (which is recommended if you want the
session to be configured via dependency injection), the Symfony2 Kernel
will associate the Session configured in the Container with the Request
automatically.
* When duplicating a request, the session is shared between the parent and
the child (that's because duplicated requests are sub-requests of the main
one most of the time.) Notice that when you use ::create(), the behavior is
the same as for the constructor; no session is attached to the Request.
* Symfony2 tries hard to not create a session cookie when it is not needed
but a Session object is always available (the cookie is only created when
"something" is stored in the session.)
* Symfony2 only starts a session when:
* A session already exists in the request ($_COOKIE[session_name()] is
defined -- this is done by RequestListener);
* There is something written in the session object (the cookie will be sent
to the Client).
* Notice that reading from the session does not start the session anymore (as
we don't need to start a new session to get the default values, and because
if a session exists, it has already been started by RequestListener.)
Because that's just not possible (have a look at the unit tests to see all possibilities
-- as you will notice, there is no way we can determine the context and whether the
data are already escaped or not).
So, we always escape data, which means that sometimes, we will try to escape already
escaped data. This is not a problem for everything except strings. That's because
strings are not wrapped with an object like everything else (for performance reason).
This means that all escapers must be able to avoid double-escaping (that's the case
for the default escapers as both htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() have a flag
that does just this).
Old notation: bundle:section:name.format:renderer (where both format and renderer are optional)
New notation: bundle:section:name.format.renderer (where only format is optional)
Valid new template names: Blog:Post:index.php, Blog:Post:index.xml.php
The new notation is more explicit and put all templating engines on the same level (there is no
more the concept of a "default" templating engine).
Even if the notation changed, the semantic has not. So, the logical template name for the above
examples is still 'index'. So, if you use a database loader for instance, the template
name is 'index' and everything else are options.
Upgrading current applications can be easily done by appending .php to each existing template
name reference (in both controllers and templates), and changing :twig to .twig for Twig templates
(for twig templates, you should also add .twig within templates themselves when referencing
another Twig templates).
A Controller must now implements ControllerInterface.
The BaseController can be used as the base class for Controllers.
The Controller class adds some proxy methods and an array access to the Container.
The error_handler_level parameter (from kernel.config) has been renamed to error_handler (false to disable the error handler,
null to catch errors from error_reporting(), and a number to catch more/less errors than error_reporting())
* removed the Kernel::registerRoutes() method
* added a router entry in <web:config> (replaces the registerRoutes() method)
<web:config>
<web:router resource="%kernel.root_dir%/config/routing.xml" />
</web:config>
* refactored routing configuration in its own routing.xml file (leverages the new routing component API),
which is loaded only if <web:router> is defined in the configuration