On 02.11.2010, at 13:56, Fabien Potencier wrote:

> On 11/1/10 10:17 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
>> On 01.11.2010, at 21:52, ryan weaver <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I tend to agree with Benjamin. Even if the intention is to insulate
>>> the beginner from the DIC for as long as possible, the
>>> documentation necessary to explain ->getService() seems more
>>> straightforward than the array syntax. I can also see beginners
>>> starting to use the [] in the wrong places (different classes)
>>> because were teaching them to use it. In such a case, the error
>>> would be less clear than "undefined method getService" or, worse,
>>> would "work", but do something besides return a DIC service. The
>>> "getService()" would be a great spot to quickly mention the idea of
>>> a container containing important objects and then move on. For more
>>> advanced users, we've done them a favor by not hiding details.
>>> 
>> I agree as well.
>> 
>> I would like to take things a bit further even. I agree that for many
>> beginners the DIC should not be the first thing they deal with. But
>> I also think that its pointless to do real work with Symfony2 without
>> learning about the DIC. So imho the base Controller class, the
>> service-less Controller setup etc is all training-wheel stuff that
>> you use to slowly introduce all the concepts.
>> 
>> But Bundles and actual production code should not use the Base
>> Controller class. The little code there currently is that isnt just
>> delegating into a service instance should be moved accordingly.
> 
> That's how it's done already. If you have a look at the Controller base 
> class, you will see that it only contains shortcut methods. As a matter of 
> fact, no controllers in the core framework extend this class.
> 
> To make it clear, I have just updated the best practice documentation 
> accordingly:
> 
> http://github.com/symfony/symfony-docs/commit/ca4a543648bb42413208137f6dc8062080c15cbd


Awesome thanks!

@Thibault: I will write a patch to "fix" DoctrineUserBundle :)

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
[email protected]



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