ControllerExtra for Symfony2

This bundle provides a collection of annotations for Symfony2 Controllers, designed to streamline the creation of certain objects and enable smaller and more concise actions.

Reference
Entity Provider
Controller Annotations
Custom annotations

Reference

By default, all annotations are loaded, but any individual annotation can be completely disabled by setting to false active parameter.

Default values are:

controller_extra:
    resolver_priority: -8
    request: current
    paginator:
        active: true
        default_name: paginator
        default_page: 1
        default_limit_per_page: 10
    entity:
        active: true
        default_name: entity
        default_persist: true
        default_mapping_fallback: false
        default_factory_method: create
        default_factory_mapping: true
    form:
        active: true
        default_name: form
    object_manager:
        active: true
        default_name: form
    flush:
        active: true
        default_manager: default
    json_response:
        active: true
        default_status: 200
        default_headers: []
    log:
        active: true
        default_level: info
        default_execute: pre

ResolverEventListener is subscribed to kernel.controller event with priority -8. This element can be configured and customized with resolver_priority config value. If you need to get ParamConverter entities, make sure that this value is lower than 0. The reason is that this listener must be executed always after ParamConverter one.

Entity provider

In some annotations, you can define an entity by several ways. This chapter is about how you can define them.

By namespace

You can define an entity using its namespace. A simple new new() be performed.

/**
 * Simple controller method
 *
 * @SomeAnnotation(
 *      class = "Mmoreram\CustomBundle\Entity\MyEntity",
 * )
 */
public function indexAction()
{
}

By doctrine shortcut

You can define an entity using Doctrine shortcut notations. With this format you should ensure that your Entities follow Symfony Bundle standards and your entities are placed under Entity/ folder.

/**
 * Simple controller method
 *
 * @SomeAnnotation(
 *      class = "MmoreramCustomBundle:MyEntity",
 * )
 */
public function indexAction()
{
}

By parameter

You can define an entity using a simple config parameter. Some projects use parameters to define all entity namespaces (To allow overriding). If you define the entity with a parameter, this bundle will try to instance it with a simple new() accessing directly to the container ParametersBag.

parameters:

    #
    # Entities
    #
    my.bundle.entity.myentity: Mmoreram\CustomBundle\Entity\MyEntity

/**
 * Simple controller method
 *
 * @SomeAnnotation(
 *      class = "my.bundle.entity.myentity",
 * )
 */
public function indexAction()
{
}

Controller annotations

This bundle provide a reduced but useful set of annotations for your controller actions.

@CreatePaginator

Creates a Doctrine Paginator object, given a request and a configuration. This annotation just injects into de controller a new Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Pagination\Pagination instance ready to be iterated.

You can enable/disable this bundle by overriding active flag in configuration file config.yml

controller_extra:
    pagination:
        active: true

By default, if name option is not set, the generated object will be placed in a parameter named $paginator. This behaviour can be configured using default_name in configuration.

This annotation can be configured with these sections

Paginator Entity

To create a new Pagination object you need to refer to an existing Entity. You can check all available formats you can define it just reading the Entity Provider section.

<?php

use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Pagination\Pagination;
use Mmoreram\ControllerExtraBundle\Annotation\CreatePaginator;

/**
 * Simple controller method
 *
 * @CreatePaginator(
 *      entityNamespace = "MmoreramCustomBundle:User",
 * )
 */
public function indexAction(Paginator $paginator)
{
}

Paginator page

You need to specify Paginator annotation the page to fetch. By default, if none is specified, this bundle will use the default one defined in configuration. You can override in config.yml

controller_extra:
    pagination:
        default_page: 1

You can refer to an existing Request attribute using ~value~ format, to any $_GET element by using format ?field? or to any $_POST by using format #field#

You can choose between Master Request or Current Request accessing to its attributes, by configuring the request value of the configuration.

use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Pagination\Pagination;
use Mmoreram\ControllerExtraBundle\Annotation\CreatePaginator;

/**
 * Simple controller method
 *
 * This Controller matches pattern /myroute/paginate/{foo}
 *
 * @CreatePaginator(
 *      entityNamespace = "MmoreramCustomBundle:User",
 *      page = "~foo~"
 * )
 */
public function indexAction(Paginator $paginator)
{
}

or you can hardcode the page to use.

use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Pagination\Pagination;
use Mmoreram\ControllerExtraBundle\Annotation\CreatePaginator;

/**
 * Simple controller method
 *
 * This Controller matches pattern /myroute/paginate/
 *
 * @CreatePaginator(
 *      entityNamespace = "MmoreramCustomBundle:User",
 *      page = 1
 * )
 */
public function indexAction(Paginator $paginator)
{
}

Paginator limit

You need to specify Paginator annotation the limit to fetch. By default, if none is specified, this bundle will use the default one defined in configuration. You can override in config.yml

controller_extra:
    pagination:
        default_limit_per_page: 10

You can refer to an existing Request attribute using ~value~ format, to any $_GET element by using format ?field? or to any $_POST by using format #field#

use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Pagination\Pagination;
use Mmoreram\ControllerExtraBundle\Annotation\CreatePaginator;

/**
 * Simple controller method
 *
 * This Controller matches pattern /myroute/paginate/{foo}/{limit}
 *
 * @CreatePaginator(
 *      entityNamespace = "MmoreramCustomBundle:User",
 *      page = "~foo~",
 *      limit = "~limit~"
 * )
 */
public function indexAction(Paginator $paginator)
{
}

or you can hardcode the page to use.

use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Pagination\Pagination;
use Mmoreram\ControllerExtraBundle\Annotation\CreatePaginator;

/**
 * Simple controller method
 *
 * This Controller matches pattern /myroute/paginate/
 *
 * @CreatePaginator(
 *      entityNamespace = "MmoreramCustomBundle:User",
 *      page = 1,
 *      limit = 10
 * )
 */
public function indexAction(Paginator $paginator)
{
}

Paginator OrderBy

You can order your Pagination just defining the fields you want to orderBy and the desired direction. The orderBy section must be defined as an array of arrays, and each array should contain these positions:

First position: Entity alias (Principal object is set as x)
Second position: Entity field
Third position: Direction
Fourth position: Custom direction map (optional)

use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Pagination\Pagination;
use Mmoreram\ControllerExtraBundle\Annotation\CreatePaginator;

/**
 * Simple controller method
 *
 * @CreatePaginator(
 *      entityNamespace = "MmoreramCustomBundle:User",
 *      orderBy = {
 *          {"x", "createdAt", "ASC"},
 *          {"x", "updatedAt", "DESC"},
 *          {"x", "id", 1, {
 *              0 => "ASC",
 *              1 => "DESC",
 *          }},
 *      }
 * )
 */
public function indexAction(Paginator $paginator)
{
}

With the third and fourth value you can define a map where to match your own direction nomenclature with DQL one. DQL nomenclature just accept ASC for Ascendant and DESC for Descendant.

This is very useful when you need to match a url format with the DQL one. You can refer to an existing Request attribute using ~value~ format, to any $_GET element by using format ?field? or to any $_POST by using format #field#

use Doctrine\ORM\Tools\Pagination\Pagination;
use Mmoreram\ControllerExtraBundle\Annotation\CreatePaginator;

/**
 * Simple controller method
 *
 *

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