Symfony how to get container in my service

Question

I have symfony project and inside this project, I have big own service which is huge and complicated with own dependencies etc... And I wanna create facade for this service with purpose to use my service in controllers like:

$myService = $this->container->get('service_from_my_domain');

My question - is how inside my facade I can get access to container to service's dependencies. I know only 1 way - is to inject dependency into service in yaml config.
But is there another way to do it? Like:

$dependency = Container::getInstance()->get('my_dependency_service');

I've found this answer but using global variable feels like back in time...

PS: I don't want to inject dependency through yaml config (not constructor injection nor setter injection) because I don't need IoC (inversion-of-control) here.

Answer 1

If you really want to have a fun and do code escapades, you could do something like this...

Create a Facade class, that must be initialized when the app starts. So, in app.php, just after the line $kernel = new AppKernel('prod', false); do the Facade initialization:

$kernel->boot();
$container = $kernel->getContainer();
\MyBundle\Facade::init($container);

And, here is a code for the Facade class:

<?php

namespace MyBundle;


use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;

class Facade
{
    /**
     * self|null
     */
    private static $instance = null;

    /**
     * ContainerInterface
     */
    private static $myContainer;

    /**
     * @param ContainerInterface $container
     */
    private function __construct(ContainerInterface $container)
    {
        self::$myContainer = $container;
    }

    /**
     * @param string $serviceId
     *
     * @return object
     * @throws \Exception
     */
    public static function create($serviceId)
    {
        if (null === self::$instance) {
            throw new \Exception("Facade is not instantiated");
        }

        return self::$myContainer->get($serviceId);
    }

    /**
     * @param ContainerInterface $container
     *
     * @return null|Facade
     */
    public static function init(ContainerInterface $container)
    {
        if (null === self::$instance) {
            self::$instance = new self($container);
        }

        return self::$instance;
    }
}

And, wherever you need some service, you create it this way:

$service = \MyBundle\Facade::create('my_dependency_service');

---

But, if you ask me - I would create a Facade service, that would have a container injected in the constructor. And you would have some method for service creation (Facade::create($serviceId)), that would ask the container for given service ID.

Answer 2

can you do like this

services:
     kernel.listener.acme_listener:
          class: Acme\AcmeBundle\EventListener\AcmeListener
          arguments:
                - @service_container
          tags:
                - { name: kernel.event_listener, event: kernel.controller, method: onKernelController }

your Listener

use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Container;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\FilterControllerEvent;

class AcmeListener
 {
    /**
     * @var Container
     */
     private $container;

    /**
     * Constructor
     *
     * @param Container $container
     */
   public function __construct(Container $container)
    {
        $this->container = $container;
    }

   public function onKernelController(FilterControllerEvent $event)
    {
        $this->container->...
    }
 }