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SitePoint PHP Blog:
Your Own Custom Annotations – More than Just Comments!
Jun 21, 2016 @ 16:04:14

The SitePoint PHP blog has posted a new tutorial from author Daniel Sipos showing you how you can use custom annotations in your Symfony-based application. You can also do annotation parsing outside of Symfony but that requires other external libraries to accomplish.

In this article, we are going to look at how we can create and use our own custom annotations in a Symfony 3 application. You know annotations right? They are the docblock metadata/configuration we see above classes, methods and properties. You’ve most likely seen them used to declare Controller routes (@Route()) and Doctrine ORM mappings (@ORM()), or even to control access to various classes and methods in packages like Rauth. But have you ever wondered how can you use them yourself?

[...] In this article we are going to build a small reusable bundle called WorkerBundle. [...] We’re going to develop a small concept that allows the definition of various Worker types which “operate” at various speeds and which can then be used by anyone in the application. The actual worker operations are outside the scope of this post, since we are focusing on setting up the system to manage them (and discover them via annotations).

He then gets into the code, creating the WorkerInterface the workers will implement and a sample worker class with an annotation describing it. Next up he creates the WorkerManager to create and get the current set of workers. Then comes the discovery process and the creation of a simple class that looks through files and finds those with the @Worker annotation and makes them available as a worker instance. Finally he "wires it all together" in the services configuration and shows an example of a basic worker instance and using it by calling its work method.

tagged: custom annotations worker example symfony application tutorial

Link: https://www.sitepoint.com/your-own-custom-annotations/


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