How to call Entity Manager in a constructor?

Manolo picture Manolo · Dec 14, 2013 · Viewed 19.7k times · Source

I've been trying to call Entity Manager in a constructor:

function __construct()
{
    $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();
    ...

but, as I've seen in this answer: Stackoverflow question, it can't be done.

So I wonder if there is a way to achieve it, as I have to call it often, and want to do some stuff in the constructor after getting the repository.

Edit:

I've tried with @MKhalidJunaid answer:

//src/MSD/HomeBundle/Resources/config/services.yml
services:
  imageTransController.custom.service:
    class:  MSD\HomeBundle\Controller\ImageTransController
    arguments: 
        EntityManager: "@doctrine.orm.entity_manager"

-

//app/config/config.php
imports:
- { resource: parameters.yml }
- { resource: security.yml }
- { resource: doctrine_extensions.yml }
- { resource: "@MSDHomeBundle/Resources/config/services.yml" }

-

//src/MSD/HomeBundle/Controller/ImageTransController.php
namespace MSD\HomeBundle\Controller;

use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager;
use MSD\HomeBundle\Entity\Imagen as Imagen;
use MSD\HomeBundle\Controller\HomeController as HomeController;


class ImageTransController extends HomeController
{
    protected $em ;

    function __construct(EntityManager $entityManager)
    {
    ...

but I'm getting this error:

Catchable Fatal Error: Catchable Fatal Error: Argument 1 passed to MSD\HomeBundle\Controller\ImageTransController::__construct() must be an instance of Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager, none given, called in /home/manolo/MiServer/itransformer/app/cache/dev/jms_diextra/controller_injectors/MSDHomeBundleControllerImageTransController.php on line 13 and defined in /home/manolo/MiServer/itransformer/src/MSD/HomeBundle/Controller/ImageTransController.php line 38 (500 Internal Server Error)

New attempt:

I've also tried with @praxmatig answer:

//services.yml
parameters:
 msd.controller.imagetrans.class: MSD\HomeBundle\Controller\ImageTransController

services:
  msd.imagetrans.controller:
    class:  "%msd.controller.imagetrans.class%"
    arguments: [ @doctrine.orm.entity_manager  ]

-

//ImageTransController.php
namespace MSD\HomeBundle\Controller;

 use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager;

class ImageTransController 
 {
    protected $em ;

    function __construct(EntityManager $em)
    {
        $this->em = $em;
    }
     ...

-

//routing.yml
msd_home_cambiardimensiones:
    pattern: /cambiardimensiones
    defaults: { _controller: MSDHomeBundle:msd.imagetrans.controller:cambiardimensionesAction }

but I get this error:

 Unable to find controller "MSDHomeBundle:msd.imagetrans.controller" - class "MSD\HomeBundle\Controller\msd.imagetrans.controllerController" does not exist. (500 Internal Server Error)

Answer

M Khalid Junaid picture M Khalid Junaid · Dec 14, 2013

You need to make a service for your class and pass the doctrine entity manager as the argument doctrine.orm.entity_manager.Like in services.yml

services:
  test.cutom.service:
    class:  Test\YourBundleName\Yourfoldernameinbundle\Test
    #arguments:
    arguments: [ @doctrine.orm.entity_manager  ] 
        #entityManager: "@doctrine.orm.entity_manager"

You must import your services.yml in config.yml

imports:
    - { resource: "@TestYourBundleName/Resources/config/services.yml" }

Then in your class's constructor get entity manager as argument

use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager;
Class Test {

  protected $em;

  public function __construct(EntityManager $entityManager)
  {
    $this->em = $entityManager;
  }
}

Hope this makes sense