How to document a controller in symfony? - symfony

I'm trying to document my project. I want to document my controller. Before my Action I have:
/**
* Description: xxx
* #param parameters of my function Action
* #return views of the action
*/
The return value here will show:
Why?
Thanks
EDIT:
A standard controller:
public function myControllerAction(Request $request) {
return $this->render('AppBundle:Default:index.html.twig');
}

The reason is that the first word after #return is considered the type of the returned data according to the official phpDocumentor docs:
#return datatype description
#return datatype1|datatype2 description

The #return annotation expects the data type as a first argument, before the description. In your case you've specified the data type as views which hasn't been included with a use statement, so PHP assumes it belongs to the current namespace and you get \AppBundle\Controllers\views. The return type of a controller must be a Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response. So you want:
#return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response description
or if you already have a use statement for Response:
#return Response description
In some cases you might want to be more specific if you are always returning a specific subclass of response, like:
BinaryFileResponse
JsonResponse
RedirectResponse
StreamedResponse

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Symfony getUser type hinting

I find it somewhat annoying to have to constantly use #var on getUser. It seems sloppy.
So I was thinking about starting to use this instead
<?php
// in the controller
$user = Customer::isCustomer($this->getUser());
// in the entity
/**
* #param Customer $user
*
* #return Customer
*/
public static function isCustomer(Customer $user)
{
return $user;
}
Is this a good idea? Bad idea? Horrible idea?
A type hint is the better option in this case.
Why would you write more code by adding checks manually rather than adding a simple type hint to your param.
Your four lines of codes representing two conditions give exactly the same result as:
/**
* #param Customer|null $user
*
* #return Customer|null
*/
public static function isCustomer(Customer $user = null)
{
// If $user is null, it works
// If $user is a Customer instance, it works
// If it's other, an exception is thrown
return $user;
}
Type hinting optimises and give more readability to a code.
It's a convention in symfony2, php and more.
It's commonly used as a constraint (or contract) with you and your method.
Also, it's the only alternative for an interface or an abstract class to add requirement to a parameter, because they don't have a body, and so cannot write conditions.
Update
In SensioLabs Insight, Object type hinting represents a warning using the following message :
The parameter user, which is an object, should be typehinted.
Because the verb should is used, I consider it's not a mandatory requirement, just a very good practice in case of it doesn't cause any problem.
Also, you can use the example you given without making your code horrible.

Symfony2 JMSSecurityBundle #secure pass object obtained with #ParamConverter

Is possible pass a object obtained with paramconvert in #secure annotation ?
This is my code:
/**
* #ParamConverter("construction", class="CliConsCoreBundle:Construction", options={"repository_method" = "findWithJoins"})
* #Secure(roles="ROLE_EXTRANET", options={"construction"})
* #Template
*/
public function showAction(Request $request, Construction $construction)
{ ... }
I want have $construction in security voter, is possible?
If I do without annotations then works.
Thanks
The #Secure annotation receives an array of strings that represents the roles that the active user has to have for the controller to be executed.
What do you exactly want to do? I can't understand the intention of your code

Getting multiple rows using ParamConverter

Hi Im trying to use ParamConverter to get multiple rows from DB but profiler show query with limi 1. Is it possible to get it like that
/**
* #Route("/localization/{code}", name="pkt-index")
* #ParamConverter("localizations", class="PriceBundle:Localization")
*/
after entering localization/0003 I should get more than 100 rows.
EDIT:
I have used repository_method option
and
/*
* #Route("/localization/{id}", name="pkt-index")
* #ParamConverter("localizations", class="PriceBundle:Localization", options={
* "repository_method": "getByLocalizationCode"
* })
*/
but funny thing is that when I change {id} in route it does not work it throws and exception
SQLSTATE[HY093]: Invalid parameter number: parameter was not defined
even if variable exists in entity class, if variable dont exist it throws
Unable to guess how to get a Doctrine instance from the request information.
EXPLANATION
when I change {id} in route it does not work it throws and exception
SQLSTATE[HY093]: Invalid parameter number: parameter was not defined
Here I think symfony treads id like primary key and as parameter to repository method it pass string when I changed this id to something else it pass array
Example
/**
* #Route("/localization/{id}", name="pkt-index")
*/
pass string to method
/**
* #Route("/localization/{code}/{name}", name="pkt-index")
*/
pass array to method
array(
'code' => 003
'name' => localization_name
)
and last
/**
* #Route("/localization/{id}/{name}", name="pkt-index")
*/
will pass string id omit the name
Hope this sounds reasonable.
forgottenbas's answer isn't completely right. #ParamConverter will first try to find one entity by id ...
... then try to match the route variables against db columns to find an entity ...
but essentially it will only convert one entity at a time.
If you would still like to use a paramconverter you would need to write a custom one.
or just use a one-liner inside your controller action:
/**
* #Route("/localization/{code}", name="pkt-index")
*/
public function yourAction($code)
{
$localizations = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository("YourBundle:Localization")->findBy(array("code" => $code));
// ...
ParamConverter currently can only extract id from request and find one entity from db. Look at
DoctrineParamConverter code. But you can specify your own param converter with some extra logic.

Symfony Entity check for ArrayCollection if already exists, then do update

For a Collection, I want to check if a new added Part already exists in the database. And if so, that it'll be overwritten with the new value.
/**
* Add Part
*/
public function addPart(\MyBundle\Entity\FooTypePart $Part)
{
$part->setProduct($this);
$this->part[] = $part;
return $this;
}
/**
*/
public function removePart(\MyBundle\Entity\FooTypePart $part)
{
$this->part->removeElement($part);
}
/**
* Get Part
* #return \Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection
*/
public function getPart()
{
return $this->part;
}
/**
* Set Part
*/
public function setPart($part)
{
$this->part = $part;
return $this;
}
The Part Entity has: ID, Category_id (FK), Product_id (FK), Part (Collection)
It is possible at the moment to add a new Part with the same name, also when there is already a Part with the same Product_id AND Category_id.
Making Part unique isn't the fix, because Part can be used for many Products/Categories.
The following example already exists in the database, with a different 'Part'. So it should do a update command.
<?php
$part = new FooTypePart();
$part->setCategory($specification);
$part->setProduct($product);
$part->setPart('DifferentNamingThenCurrentOne');
$xx->addSpecificationValue($part);
How? :-)
Just use the UniqueEntity validator to find an already existant Item in the collection.
You can specify uniqueness using multiple properties or a repository method. This way you can search for items only having a unique combination of name, product-id and category-id.
Create a validation group i.e. "unique" and find the non-unique/existant entity in your collection by looking for invalid entities.
... then update the existing entity with your new value. You will probably need some extra logic because there might be multiple fields with the same name added to your form collection.

Symfony Newb Routing Issue

I have just started using Symfony and I am having a routing problem. Here is the routing fromt the controller:
/**
* #Route("/social/{name}/", name="_speed1")
* #Route("/social/drivers/")
* #Route("/social/drivers/{name}/", name="_driver")
* #Route("/social/", name="_speed")
* #Template()
*/
public function unlimitedAction()
{
If I go to speed/social/ or speed/social/bob or speed/social/drivers/ or speed/social/drivers/bob all of those pages render with no problem. However I need the name being passed in so I changed
public function unlimitedAction()
{
to
public function unlimitedAction($name)
{
If I go to speed/social/drivers/ or speed/social/drivers/bob it returns fine. However, if I go to speed/social/ then I get the following error:
Controller "MyBundle\Controller\DefaultController::unlimitedAction()"
requires that you provide a value for the "$name" argument (because there is
no default value or because there is a non optional argument after this one).
I can't understand why it works for one route but not the other.
So my question is, how can I acheive my routing so that I can go to:
speed/social/
speed/social/drivers/
speed/social/drivers/bob
And be able to pass the variable to the action without error.
Thanks!
To answer your question: you have to provide a default value for name parameter, for each route without the {name} parameter in the url. I can't test it right now and I can't remember the syntax when using annotations, but should be something like this:
/**
* #Route("/social/{name}/", name="_speed1", defaults={"name"=null})
* #Route("/social/drivers/{name}/", name="_driver", defaults={"name"=null})
* #Template()
*/
public function unlimitedAction($name)
{
}
This way you should be able to call /social/ and /social/foo as well as /social/drivers/ and /social/drivers/foo.
But, really, this is not the right way to go. Just define more actions, each binded to a single route:
/**
* #Route("/social", name="social_index")
* #Template()
*/
public function socialIndexAction() { } // /social
/**
* #Route("/social/{name}", name="social_show")
* #Template()
*/
public function socialShowAction($name) { } // /social/foo
As a general rule, each method (each action) should be focused to do just one thing and should be as short as possible. Use services and make your controllers do what they are supposed to do: understand user input, call services and show views.

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