Dotkernel component used to create services through any PSR-11 container, such as Laminas Service Manager, and inject them with dependencies just using method annotations. Annotation parsing can be cached to improve performance.

This package can clean up your code by getting rid of all the factories you write, sometimes just to inject a dependency or two.

Documentation is available at: https://docs.dotkernel.org/dot-annotated-services/.

Branch	PSR-11	Docblock Comments	OSS Lifecycle	PHP Version
6.0	1 || 2	Annotations
5.0	1 || 2	Attributes
4.0	1	Annotations
3.0	1	Annotations

Versions 4.x and 6.0 are the proper releases of this package. They are annotation-based.

Version 5.x is discontinued. It used PHP attributes, which are now provided by a separate package: dot-dependency-injection (documentation). Use it if you want attributes instead of annotations. See Version 5 is discontinued for migration notes.

Run the following command in your project directory

composer require dotkernel/dot-annotated-services

You can register services in the container using the AnnotatedServiceFactory as below.

return [
    'factories' => [
        ServiceClass::class => AnnotatedServiceFactory::class,
    ],
];

You can use only the fully qualified class name as the service key.

The next step is to annotate the service constructor or setters with the service names to inject.

use Dot\AnnotatedServices\Annotation\Inject;

/**
 * @Inject({
 *     Dependency1::class,
 *     Dependency2::class,
 *     "config"
 * })
 */
public function __construct(
    protected Dependency1 $dep1,
    protected Dependency2 $dep2,
    protected array $config
) {
}

The annotation @Inject is telling the factory to inject the services between curly braces. Valid service names should be provided, as registered in the container.

To inject an array value from the container, you can use dot notation as below.

use Dot\AnnotatedServices\Annotation\Inject;

/**
 * @Inject({"config.debug"})
 */

which will inject $container->get('config')['debug'];

Even if using dot annotation, the annotated factory will check first if a service name exists with that name.

You can use the @Inject annotation on setters too, they will be called at creation time and injected with the configured dependencies.

You can register doctrine repositories and inject them using the AnnotatedRepositoryFactory as below.

return [
    'factories' => [
        ExampleRepository::class => AnnotatedRepositoryFactory::class,
    ],
];

The next step is to add the @Entity annotation in the repository class.

The name field has to be the fully qualified class name.

Every repository should extend Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository, and must be the repository class of the entity.

use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;
use Dot\AnnotatedServices\Annotation\Entity;

/**
 * @Entity(name="App\Entity\Example")
 */
class ExampleRepository extends EntityRepository
{
}

This package is built on top of doctrine/annotations. To cache annotations, you should register a service factory at key AbstractAnnotatedFactory::CACHE_SERVICE that should return a valid PSR-6 cache pool, an implementation of Psr\Cache\CacheItemPoolInterface.

Below, we give an example, using symfony/cache:

return [
    'annotations_cache_dir' => __DIR__ . '/../../data/cache/annotations',
    'dependencies' => [
        'factories' => [
            // used by dot-annotated-services to cache annotations
            // needs to return a PSR-6 cache pool
            AbstractAnnotatedFactory::CACHE_SERVICE => AnnotationsCacheFactory::class,
        ]
    ],
];

namespace Frontend\App\Factory;

use Psr\Cache\CacheItemPoolInterface;
use Psr\Container\ContainerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\FilesystemAdapter;

class AnnotationsCacheFactory
{
    public function __invoke(ContainerInterface $container): CacheItemPoolInterface
    {
        //change this to suite your caching needs
        return new FilesystemAdapter(
            namespace: 'annotations',
            directory: $container->get('config')['annotations_cache_dir'],
        );
    }
}