Ray.Di Complete Manual

This comprehensive manual contains all Ray.Di documentation in a single page for easy reference, printing, or offline viewing.

Installation

The recommended way to install Ray.Di is through Composer.

composer require ray/di ^2.0

The GitHub repository is at ray-di/Ray.Di

Testing Ray.Di

Here’s how to install Ray.Di from source and run the unit tests and demos.

git clone https://github.com/ray-di/Ray.Di.git
cd Ray.Di
./vendor/bin/phpunit
php demo-php8/run.php

Motivation

Wiring everything together is a tedious part of application development. There are several approaches to connect data, service, and presentation classes to one another. To contrast these approaches, we’ll write the billing code for a pizza ordering website:

interface BillingServiceInterface
{
    /**
    * Attempts to charge the order to the credit card. Both successful and
    * failed transactions will be recorded.
    *
    * @return Receipt a receipt of the transaction. If the charge was successful,
    *      the receipt will be successful. Otherwise, the receipt will contain a
    *      decline note describing why the charge failed.
    */
    public function chargeOrder(PizzaOrder order, CreditCard creditCard): Receipt;
}

Along with the implementation, we’ll write unit tests for our code. In the tests we need a FakeCreditCardProcessor to avoid charging a real credit card!

Direct constructor calls

Here’s what the code looks like when we just new up the credit card processor and transaction logger:

class RealBillingService implements BillingServiceInterface
{
    public function chargeOrder(PizzaOrder $order, CreditCard $creditCard): Receipt
    {
        $processor = new PaypalCreditCardProcessor();
        $transactionLog = new DatabaseTransactionLog();

        try {
            $result = $processor->charge($creditCard, $order->getAmount());
            $transactionLog->logChargeResult($result);

            return $result->wasSuccessful()
                ? Receipt::forSuccessfulCharge($order->getAmount())
                : Receipt::forDeclinedCharge($result->getDeclineMessage());
        } catch (UnreachableException $e) {
            $transactionLog->logConnectException($e);

            return Receipt::forSystemFailure($e->getMessage());
        }
    }
}

This code poses problems for modularity and testability. The direct, compile-time dependency on the real credit card processor means that testing the code will charge a credit card! It’s also awkward to test what happens when the charge is declined or when the service is unavailable.

Factories

A factory class decouples the client and implementing class. A simple factory uses static methods to get and set mock implementations for interfaces. A factory is implemented with some boilerplate code:

class CreditCardProcessorFactory
{
    private static CreditCardProcessor $instance;
    
    public static function setInstance(CreditCardProcessor $processor): void 
    {
        self::$instance = $processor;
    }
    
    public static function getInstance(): CreditCardProcessor
    {
        if (self::$instance == null) {
            return new SquareCreditCardProcessor();
        }
        
        return self::$instance;
    }
}

In our client code, we just replace the new calls with factory lookups:

class RealBillingService implements BillingServiceInterface
{
    public function chargeOrder(PizzaOrder $order, CreditCard $creditCard): Receipt
    {
        $processor = CreditCardProcessorFactory::getInstance();
        $transactionLog = TransactionLogFactory::getInstance();
        
        try {
            $result = $processor->charge($creditCard, $order->getAmount());
            $transactionLog->logChargeResult($result);
            
            return $result->wasSuccessful()
                ? Receipt::forSuccessfulCharge($order->getAmount())
                : Receipt::forDeclinedCharge($result->getDeclineMessage());
        } catch (UnreachableException $e) {
            $transactionLog->logConnectException($e);
            return Receipt::forSystemFailure($e->getMessage());
        }
    }
}

The factory makes it possible to write a proper unit test:

class RealBillingServiceTest extends TestCase 
{
    private PizzaOrder $order;
    private CreditCard $creditCard;
    private InMemoryTransactionLog $transactionLog;
    private FakeCreditCardProcessor $processor;
    
    public function setUp(): void
    {
        $this->order = new PizzaOrder(100);
        $this->creditCard = new CreditCard('1234', 11, 2010);
        $this->processor = new FakeCreditCardProcessor();
        TransactionLogFactory::setInstance($transactionLog);
        CreditCardProcessorFactory::setInstance($this->processor);
    }
    
    public function tearDown(): void
    {
        TransactionLogFactory::setInstance(null);
        CreditCardProcessorFactory::setInstance(null);
    }
    
    public function testSuccessfulCharge()
    {
        $billingService = new RealBillingService();
        $receipt = $billingService->chargeOrder($this->order, $this->creditCard);

        $this->assertTrue($receipt->hasSuccessfulCharge());
        $this->assertEquals(100, $receipt->getAmountOfCharge());
        $this->assertEquals($this->creditCard, $this->processor->getCardOfOnlyCharge());
        $this->assertEquals(100, $this->processor->getAmountOfOnlyCharge());
        $this->assertTrue($this->transactionLog->wasSuccessLogged());
    }
}

This code is clumsy. A global variable holds the mock implementation, so we need to be careful about setting it up and tearing it down. Should the tearDown fail, the global variable continues to point at our test instance. This could cause problems for other tests. It also prevents us from running multiple tests in parallel.

But the biggest problem is that the dependencies are hidden in the code. If we add a dependency on a CreditCardFraudTracker, we have to re-run the tests to find out which ones will break. Should we forget to initialize a factory for a production service, we don’t find out until a charge is attempted. As the application grows, babysitting factories becomes a growing drain on productivity.

Quality problems will be caught by QA or acceptance tests. That may be sufficient, but we can certainly do better.

Dependency Injection

Like the factory, dependency injection is just a design pattern. The core principle is to separate behaviour from dependency resolution. In our example, the RealBillingService is not responsible for looking up the TransactionLog and CreditCardProcessor. Instead, they’re passed in as constructor parameters:

class RealBillingService implements BillingServiceInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        private readonly CreditCardProcessor $processor,
        private readonly TransactionLog $transactionLog
    ) {}
    
    public chargeOrder(PizzaOrder $order, CreditCard $creditCard): Receipt
    {
        try {
            $result = $this->processor->charge($creditCard, $order->getAmount());
            $this->transactionLog->logChargeResult(result);
        
            return $result->wasSuccessful()
                ? Receipt::forSuccessfulCharge($order->getAmount())
                : Receipt::forDeclinedCharge($result->getDeclineMessage());
        } catch (UnreachableException $e) {
            $this->transactionLog->logConnectException($e);

            return Receipt::forSystemFailure($e->getMessage());
        }
    }
}

We don’t need any factories, and we can simplify the testcase by removing the setUp and tearDown boilerplate:

class RealBillingServiceTest extends TestCase
{
    private PizzaOrder $order;
    private CreditCard $creditCard;
    private InMemoryTransactionLog $transactionLog;
    private FakeCreditCardProcessor $processor;

    public function setUp(): void
    {
        $this->order = new PizzaOrder(100);
        $this->creditCard = new CreditCard("1234", 11, 2010);
        $this->transactionLog = new InMemoryTransactionLog();
        $this->processor = new FakeCreditCardProcessor();      
    }
    
    public function testSuccessfulCharge()
    {
        $billingService= new RealBillingService($this->processor, $this->transactionLog);
        $receipt = $billingService->chargeOrder($this->order, $this->creditCard);
        
        $this->assertTrue($receipt->hasSuccessfulCharge());
        $this->assertSame(100, $receipt->getAmountOfCharge());
        $this->assertSame($this->creditCard, $this->processor->getCardOfOnlyCharge());
        $this->assertSame(100, $this->processor->getAmountOfOnlyCharge());
        $this->assertTrue($this->transactionLog->wasSuccessLogged());
    }
}

Now, whenever we add or remove dependencies, the compiler will remind us what tests need to be fixed. The dependency is exposed in the API signature.

Unfortunately, now the clients of BillingService need to lookup its dependencies. We can fix some of these by applying the pattern again! Classes that depend on it can accept a BillingService in their constructor. For top-level classes, it’s useful to have a framework. Otherwise you’ll need to construct dependencies recursively when you need to use a service:

<?php
$processor = new PaypalCreditCardProcessor();
$transactionLog = new DatabaseTransactionLog();
$billingService = new RealBillingService($processor, $transactionLog);
// ...

Dependency Injection with Ray.Di

The dependency injection pattern leads to code that’s modular and testable, and Ray.Di makes it easy to write. To use Ray.Di in our billing example, we first need to tell it how to map our interfaces to their implementations. This configuration is done in a Ray.Di module, which is any PHP class that implements the Module interface:

class BillingModule extends AbstractModule
{
    protected function configure(): void
    {
        $this->bind(TransactionLog::class)->to(DatabaseTransactionLog::class);
        $this->bind(CreditCardProcessor::class)->to(PaypalCreditCardProcessor::class);
        $this->bind(BillingServiceInterface::class)->to(RealBillingService::class);
    }
}

Ray.Di will inspect the constructor, and lookup values for each parameter.

class RealBillingService implements BillingServiceInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        private readonly CreditCardProcessor $processor,
        private readonly TransactionLog $transactionLog
    ) {}

    public function chargeOrder(PizzaOrder $order, CreditCard $creditCard): Receipt
    {
        try {
          $result = $this->processor->charge($creditCard, $order->getAmount());
          $this->transactionLog->logChargeResult($result);
        
          return $result->wasSuccessful()
              ? Receipt::forSuccessfulCharge($order->getAmount())
              : Receipt::forDeclinedCharge($result->getDeclineMessage());
         } catch (UnreachableException $e) {
            $this->transactionLog->logConnectException($e);

            return Receipt::forSystemFailure($e->getMessage());
        }
    }
}

Finally, we can put it all together. The Injector can be used to get an instance of any of the bound classes.

<?php
$injector = new Injector(new BillingModule());
$billingService = $injector->getInstance(BillingServiceInterface::class);
//...

Getting started explains how this all works.

GettingStarted

How to start doing dependency injection with Ray.Di.

Getting Started

Ray.Di is a framework that makes it easier for your application to use the dependency injection (DI) pattern. This getting started guide will walk you through a simple example of how you can use Ray.Di to incorporate dependency injection into your application.

What is dependency injection?

Dependency injection is a design pattern wherein classes declare their dependencies as arguments instead of creating those dependencies directly. For example, a client that wishes to call a service should not have to know how to construct the service, rather, some external code is responsible for providing the service to the client.

Here’s a simple example of code that does not use dependency injection:

class Foo
{
    private Database $database;  // We need a Database to do some work
    
    public function __construct()
    {
        // Ugh. How could I test this? What if I ever want to use a different
        // database in another application?
        $this->database = new Database('/path/to/my/data');
    }
}

The Foo class above creates a fixed Database object directly. This prevents this class from being used with other Database objects and does not allow the real database to be swapped out for a testing database in tests. Instead of writing untestable or inflexible code, you can use dependency injection pattern to address all these issues.

Here’s the same example, this time using dependency injection:

class Foo {
    private Database $database;  // We need a Database to do some work
    
    public function __construct(Database $database)
    {
        // The database comes from somewhere else. Where? That's not my job, that's
        // the job of whoever constructs me: they can choose which database to use.
        $this->database = $database;
    }
}

The Foo class above can be used with any Database objects since Foo has no knowledge of how the Database is created. For example, you can create a test version of Database implementation that uses an in-memory database in tests to make the test hermetic and fast.

The Motivation page explains why applications should use the dependency injection pattern in more detail.

Core Ray.Di concepts

constructor

PHP class constructors can be called by Ray.Di through a process called constructor injection, during which the constructors’ arguments will be created and provided by Ray.Di. (Unlike Guice, Ray.Di does not require the “Inject” annotation in its constructor.)

Here is an example of a class that uses constructor injection:

class Greeter
{
    // Greeter declares that it needs a string message and an integer
    // representing the number of times the message is to be printed.
    public function __construct(
        #[Message] readonly string $message,
        #[Count] readonly int $count
    ) {}

    public function sayHello(): void
    {
        for ($i=0; $i < $this->count; $i++) {
            echo $this->message;
        }
    }
}

In the example above, the Greeter class has a constructor that is called whenapplication asks Ray.Di to create an instance of Greeter. Ray.Di will create the two arguments required, then invoke the constructor. The Greeter class’s constructor arguments are its dependencies and applications use Module to tell Ray.Di how to satisfy those dependencies.

Ray.Di modules

Applications contain objects that declare dependencies on other objects, and those dependencies form graphs. For example, the above Greeter class has two dependencies (declared in its constructor):

A string value for the message to be printed
An int value for the number of times to print the message

Ray.Di modules allow applications to specify how to satisfy those dependencies. For example, the following DemoModule configures all the necessary dependencies for Greeter class:

class CountProvider implements ProviderInterface
{
    public function get(): int
    {
        return 3;
    }
}

class MessageProvider implements ProviderInterface
{
    public function get(): string
    {
        return 'hello world';
    }
}

/**
 * Ray.Di module that provides bindings for message and count used in
 * {@link Greeter}.
 */
class DemoModule extends AbstractModule
{
    protected function configure(): void
    {
        $this->bind()->annotatedWith(Count::class)->toProvider(CountProvider::class);
        $this->bind()->annotatedWith(Message::class)->toProvider(MessageProvider::class);
    }
}

In a real application, the dependency graph for objects will be much more complicated and Ray.Di makes creating complex object easy by creating all the transitive dependencies automatically.

Ray.Di injectors

To bootstrap your application, you’ll need to create a Ray.Di Injector withone or more modules in it. For example, a web server script might that looks like this:

final class MyWebServer {
    public function __construct(
        private readonly RequestLoggingInterface $requestLogging,
        private readonly RequestHandlerInterface $requestHandler,
        private readonly AuthenticationInterface $authentication,
        private readonly Database $database
    ) {}

    public function start(): void
    {
        //　...
    }
    
    public function __invoke(): void
    {
        // Creates an injector that has all the necessary dependencies needed to
        // build a functional server.
        $injector = new Injector(new class extends AbstractModule {
            protected function configure(): void
            {
                // Install the modules that provide the necessary dependencies.
                $this->install(new RequestLoggingModule());
                $this->install(new RequestHandlerModule());
                $this->install(new AuthenticationModule());
                $this->install(new DatabaseModule());
            }
        });
    
        // Bootstrap the application by creating an instance of the server then
        // start the server to handle incoming requests.
        $injector->getInstance(MyWebServer::class)->start();
    }
}

(new MyWebServer)();

The injector internally holds the dependency graphs described in your application. When you request an instance of a given type, the injector figures out what objects to construct, resolves their dependencies, and wires everything together. To specify how dependencies are resolved, configure your injector with bindings.

A simple Ray.Di application

The following is a simple Ray.Di application with all the necessary pieces put together:

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Ray\Di\AbstractModule;
use Ray\Di\Di\Qualifier;
use Ray\Di\Injector;

#[Attribute, Qualifier]
class Message
{
}

#[Attribute, Qualifier]
class Count
{
}

class CountProvider implements ProviderInterface
{
    public function get(): int
    {
        return 3;
    }
}

class MessageProvider implements ProviderInterface
{
    public function get(): string
    {
        return 'hello world';
    }
}

class DemoModule extends AbstractModule
{
    protected function configure()
    {
        $this->bind()->annotatedWith(Count::class)->toProvider(CountProvider::class);
        $this->bind()->annotatedWith(Message::class)->toProvider(MessageProvider::class);
    }
}

class Greeter
{
    public function __construct(
        #[Message] private string $message,
        #[Count] private int $count
    ) {}

    public function sayHello(): void
    {
        for ($i = 0; $i < $this->count ; $i++) {
            echo $this->message . PHP_EOL;
        }
    }
}

/*
 * Injector's constructor takes one or more modules.
 * Most applications will call this method exactly once in bootstrap.
 */
$injector = new Injector([new DemoModule]);

/*
 * Now that we've got the injector, we can build objects.
 */
$greeter = $injector->getInstance(Greeter::class);

// Prints "hello world" 3 times to the console.
$greeter->sayHello();

The greeter application constructed a small dependency graph using Ray.Di that is capable of building instances of Greeter class. Large applications usually have many Modules that can build complex objects.

What’s next?

Read more on how to conceptualize Ray.Di with a simple mental model.

Ray.Di Mental Model

Learn about Key, Provider and how Ray.Di is just a map

When you are reading about “Dependency Injection”, you often see many buzzwords (“Inversion of control”, “Hollywood principle”) that make it sound confusing. But underneath the jargon of dependency injection, the concepts aren’t very complicated. In fact, you might have written something very similar already! This page walks through a simplified model of Ray.Di implementation, which should make it easier to think about how it works.

Ray.Di is a map

Fundamentally, Ray.Di helps you create and retrieve objects for your application to use. These objects that your application needs are called dependencies.

You can think of Ray.Di as being a map[^Ray.Di-map]. Your application code declares the dependencies it needs, and Ray.Di fetches them for you from its map. Each entry in the “Ray.Di map” has two parts:

Ray.Di key: a key in the map which is used to fetch a particular value from the map.
Provider: a value in the map which is used to create objects for your application.

Ray.Di keys and Providers are explained below.

map is a reasonable approximation for how Ray.Di behaves.

Ray.Di keys

Ray.Di uses Key to identify a dependency that can be resolved using the “Ray.Di map”.

The Greeter class used in the Getting Started declares two dependencies in its constructor and those dependencies are represented as Key in Ray.Di:

#[Message] string –> $map[$messageKey]
#[Count] int –> $map[$countKey]

The simplest form of a Key represents a type in php:

// Identifies a dependency that is an instance of string.
/** @var string $databaseKey */
$databaseKey = $map[$key];

However, applications often have dependencies that are of the same type:

class Message
{
    public function __construct(
    	  public readonly string $text
    ){}
}

class MultilingualGreeter
{
    public function __construct(
      private readonly Message $englishGreeting,
      private readonly Message $spanishGreeting
    ) {}
}

Ray.Di uses binding attributes to distinguish dependencies that are of the same type, that is to make the type more specific:

class MultilingualGreeter
{
    public function __construct(
      #[English] private readonly Message $englishGreeting,
      #[Spanish] private readonly Message $spanishGreeting
    ) {}
}

Key with binding attribute can be created as:

$englishGreetingKey = $map[Message::class . English::class];
$spanishGreetingKey = $map[Message::class . Spanish::class];

When an application calls $injector->getInstance(MultilingualGreeter::class) to create an instance of MultilingualGreeter. This is the equivalent of doing:

// Ray.Di internally does this for you so you don't have to wire up those
// dependencies manually.
$english = $injector->getInstance(Message::class, English::class));
$spanish = $injector->getInstance(Message::class, Spanish::class));
$greeter = new MultilingualGreeter($english, $spanish);

To summarize: Ray.Di Key is a type combined with an optional binding attribute used to identify dependencies.

Ray.Di `Provider`s

Ray.Di uses Provider to represent factories in the “Ray.Di map” that are capable of creating objects to satisfy dependencies.

Provider is an interface with a single method:

interface Provider
{
  /** Provides an instance */
  public function get();
}

Each class that implements Provider is a bit of code that knows how to give you an instance of T. It could call new T(), it could construct T in some other way, or it could return you a precomputed instance from a cache.

Most applications do not implement Provider interface directly, they use Module to configure Ray.Di injector and Ray.Di injector internally creates Providers for all the object it knows how to create.

For example, the following Ray.Di module creates two Providers:

class CountProvider implements ProviderInterface
{
    public function get(): int
    {
        return 3;
    }
}

class MessageProvider implements ProviderInterface
{
    public function get(): Message
    {
        return new Message('hello world');
    }
}

class DemoModule extends AbstractModule
{
   protected function configure(): void
   {
       $this->bind()->annotatedWith(Count::class)->toProvider(CountProvider::class);
       $this->bind()->annotatedWith(Message::class)->toProvider(MessageProvider::class);
   }
}

MessageProvider that calls the get() method and returns “hello world”
CountProvider that calls the get() method and returns 3

Using Ray.Di

There are two parts to using Ray.Di:

Configuration: your application adds things into the “Ray.Di map”.
Injection: your application asks Ray.Di to create and retrieve objects from the map.

Configuration and injection are explained below.

Configuration

Ray.Di maps are configured using Ray.Di modules. A Ray.Di module is a unit of configuration logic that adds things into the Ray.Di map. There are two ways to do this:

Using the Ray.Di Domain Specific Language (DSL).

Conceptually, these APIs simply provide ways to manipulate the Ray.Di map. The manipulations they do are pretty straightforward. Here are some example translations, shown using PHP syntax for brevity and clarity:

Ray.Di DSL syntax	Mental model
`bind($key)->toInstance($value)`	`$map[$key] = $value;` (instance binding)
`bind($key)->toProvider($provider)`	`$map[$key] = fn => $value;` (provider binding)
`bind(key)->to(anotherKey)`	`$map[$key] = $map[$anotherKey];` (linked binding)

DemoModule adds two entries into the Ray.Di map:

#[Message] string –> fn() => (new MessageProvider)->get()
#[Count] int –> fn() => (new CountProvider)->get()

Injection

You don’t pull things out of a map, you declare that you need them. This is the essence of dependency injection. If you need something, you don’t go out and get it from somewhere, or even ask a class to return you something. Instead, you simply declare that you can’t do your work without it, and rely on Ray.Di to give you what you need.

This model is backwards from how most people think about code: it’s a more declarative model rather than an imperative one. This is why dependency injection is often described as a kind of inversion of control (IoC).

Some ways of declaring that you need something:

An argument to a constructor:

 class Foo
 {
   // We need a database, from somewhere
   public function __construct(
         private Database $database
    ) {}
 }

An argument to a DatabaseProvider::get() method:

 class DatabaseProvider implements ProviderInterface
 {
     public function __construct(
         #[Dsn] private string $dsn
     ){}
      
     public function get(): Database
     {
         return new Database($this->dsn);
     }
 }

This example is intentionally the same as the example Foo class from Getting Started Guide. Unlike Guice, Ray.Di does not require the Inject attribute to be added to the constructor.

Dependencies form a graph

When injecting a thing that has dependencies of its own, Ray.Di recursively injects the dependencies. You can imagine that in order to inject an instance of Foo as shown above, Ray.Di creates Provider implementations that look like these:

class FooProvider implements Provider
{
    public function get(): Foo
    {
        global $map;
        
        $databaseProvider = $map[Database::class]);
        $database = $databaseProvider->get();
        
        return new Foo($database);
    }
}

class DatabaseProvider implements Provider
{
    public function get(): Database
    {
        global $map;
        
        $dsnProvider = $map[Dsn::class];
        $dsn = $dsnProvider->get();
        
        return new Database($dsn);
    }
}  

class DsnProvider implements Provider
{
    public function get(): string
    {
        return getenv(DB_DSN);
    }
}  

Dependencies form a directed graph, and injection works by doing a depth-first traversal of the graph from the object you want up through all its dependencies.

A Ray.Di Injector object represents the entire dependency graph. To create an Injector, Ray.Di needs to validate that the entire graph works. There can’t be any “dangling” nodes where a dependency is needed but not provided.¹ If the bound is incomplete somewhere in the graph, Ray.Di will throw an Unbound exception.

nothing ever uses it—it’s just dead code in that case. That said, just like any dead code, it’s best to delete providers if nobody uses them anymore.

What’s next?

Learn how to use Scopes to manage the lifecycle of objects created by Ray.Di and the many different ways to add entries into the Ray.Di map.

Scopes

By default, Ray returns a new instance each time it supplies a value. This behaviour is configurable via scopes.

use Ray\Di\Scope;

$this->bind(TransactionLogInterface::class)->to(InMemoryTransactionLog::class)->in(Scope::SINGLETON);

Bindings

Overview of bindings in Ray.Di

A binding is an object that corresponds to an entry in Ray.Di map. You add new entries into the Ray.Di map by creating bindings.

Creating Bindings

To create bindings, extend AbstractModule and override its configure method. In the method body, call bind() to specify each binding. These methods are type checked in compile can report errors if you use the wrong types. Once you’ve created your modules, pass them as arguments to Injector to build an injector.

Use modules to create linked bindings, instance bindings, provider bindings, constructor bindings and untargeted bindings.

class TweetModule extends AbstractModule
{
    protected function configure()
    {
        $this->bind(TweetClient::class);
        $this->bind(TweeterInterface::class)->to(SmsTweeter::class)->in(Scope::SINGLETON);
        $this->bind(UrlShortenerInterface::class)->toProvider(TinyUrlShortener::class);
        $this->bind('')->annotatedWith(Username::class)->toInstance("koriym");
    }
}

More Bindings

In addition to the bindings you specify the injector includes built-in bindings. When a dependency is requested but not found it attempts to create a just-in-time binding. The injector also includes bindings for the providers of its other bindings.

Module Install

A module can install other modules to configure more bindings.

Earlier bindings have priority even if the same binding is made later.
override bindings in that module have priority.

protected function configure()
{
    $this->install(new OtherModule);
    $this->override(new CustomiseModule);
}

Linked Bindings

Linked bindings map a type to its implementation. This example maps the interface TransactionLogInterface to the implementation DatabaseTransactionLog:

$this->bind(TransactionLogInterface::class)->to(DatabaseTransactionLog::class);

Binding Attributes

Occasionally you’ll want multiple bindings for a same type. For example, you might want both a PayPal credit card processor and a Google Checkout processor. To enable this, bindings support an optional binding attribute. The attribute and type together uniquely identify a binding. This pair is called a key.

Defining binding attributes

Define qualifier attribute first. It needs to be annotated with Qualifier attribute.

use Ray\Di\Di\Qualifier;

#[Attribute, Qualifier]
final class PayPal
{
}

To depend on the annotated binding, apply the attribute to the injected parameter:

public function __construct(
    #[Paypal] private readonly CreditCardProcessorInterface $processor
){}

You can specify parameter name with qualifier. Qualifier applied all parameters without it.

public function __construct(
    #[Paypal('processor')] private readonly CreditCardProcessorInterface $processor
){}

Lastly we create a binding that uses the attribute. This uses the optional annotatedWith clause in the bind() statement:

$this->bind(CreditCardProcessorInterface::class)
  ->annotatedWith(PayPal::class)
  ->to(PayPalCreditCardProcessor::class);

Binding Attributes in Setters

In order to make your custom Qualifier attribute inject dependencies by default in any method the attribute is added, you need to implement the Ray\Di\Di\InjectInterface:

use Ray\Di\Di\InjectInterface;
use Ray\Di\Di\Qualifier;

#[Attribute, Qualifier]
final class PaymentProcessorInject implements InjectInterface
{
    public function isOptional()
    {
        return $this->optional;
    }
    
    public function __construct(
        public readonly bool $optional = true
        public readonly string $type;
    ){}
}

The interface requires that you implement the isOptional() method. It will be used to determine whether or not the injection should be performed based on whether there is a known binding for it.

Now that you have created your custom injector attribute, you can use it on any method.

#[PaymentProcessorInject(type: 'paypal')]
public setPaymentProcessor(CreditCardProcessorInterface $processor)
{
 ....
}

Finally, you can bind the interface to an implementation by using your new annotated information:

$this->bind(CreditCardProcessorInterface::class)
    ->annotatedWith(PaymentProcessorInject::class)
    ->toProvider(PaymentProcessorProvider::class);

The provider can now use the information supplied in the qualifier attribute in order to instantiate the most appropriate class.

#[Named]

The most common use of a Qualifier attribute is tagging arguments in a function with a certain label, the label can be used in the bindings in order to select the right class to be instantiated. For those cases, Ray.Di comes with a built-in binding attribute #[Named] that takes a string.

use Ray\Di\Di\Inject;
use Ray\Di\Di\Named;

public function __construct(
    #[Named('checkout')] private CreditCardProcessorInterface $processor
){}

To bind a specific name, pass that string using the annotatedWith() method.

$this->bind(CreditCardProcessorInterface::class)
    ->annotatedWith('checkout')
    ->to(CheckoutCreditCardProcessor::class);

Add the #[Named] attribute to the parameter you want to qualify.

use Ray\Di\Di\Inject;
use Ray\Di\Di\Named;

public function __construct(
    #[Named('checkout')] private CreditCardProcessorInterface $processor,
    #[Named('backup')] private CreditCardProcessorInterface $subProcessor
){}

Binding Annotation

Ray.Di can be used with doctrine/annotation for PHP 7.x. See the old README(v2.10) for annotation code examples. To create forward-compatible annotations for attributes, see custom annotation classes.

Since annotations cannot be applied to arguments, the first argument of a custom annotation should be the name of the variable. This is not necessary if the method has only one argument.

/**
 * @Paypal('processor')
 */
public function setCreditCardProcessor(
    CreditCardProcessorInterface $processor
    OtherDependencyInterface $dependency
){

Instance Bindings

You can bind a type to an instance of that type. This is usually only useful for objects that don’t have dependencies of their own, such as value objects:

$this->bind(UserInterface::class)->toInstance(new User);

$this->bind()->annotatedWith('login_id')->toInstance('bear');

Avoid using toInstance() with objects that are complicated to create, since it can slow down application startup.

Provider Bindings

Provider bindings map a type to its provider.

$this->bind(TransactionLogInterface::class)->toProvider(DatabaseTransactionLogProvider::class);

The provider class implements Ray’s Provider interface, which is a simple, general interface for supplying values:

namespace Ray\Di;

interface ProviderInterface
{
    public function get();
}

Our provider implementation class has dependencies of its own, which it receives via a constructor. It implements the Provider interface to define what’s returned with complete type safety:

use Ray\Di\Di\Inject;
use Ray\Di\ProviderInterface;

class DatabaseTransactionLogProvider implements ProviderInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        private readonly ConnectionInterface $connection)
    ){}

    public function get()
    {
        $transactionLog = new DatabaseTransactionLog;
        $transactionLog->setConnection($this->connection);

        return $transactionLog;
    }
}

Finally we bind to the provider using the toProvider() method:

$this->bind(TransactionLogInterface::class)->toProvider(DatabaseTransactionLogProvider::class);

Injection Point

An InjectionPoint is a class that has information about an injection point. It provides access to metadata via \ReflectionParameter or an attribute in Provider.

For example, the following get() method of Psr3LoggerProvider class creates injectable Loggers. The log category of a Logger depends upon the class of the object into which it is injected.

class Psr3LoggerProvider implements ProviderInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        private InjectionPointInterface $ip
    ){}

    public function get()
    {
        $logger = new \Monolog\Logger($this->ip->getClass()->getName());
        $logger->pushHandler(new StreamHandler('path/to/your.log', Logger::WARNING));

        return $logger;
    }
}

InjectionPointInterface provides following methods.

$ip->getClass();      // \ReflectionClass
$ip->getMethod();     // \ReflectionMethod
$ip->getParameter();  // \ReflectionParameter
$ip->getQualifiers(); // (array) $qualifierAnnotations

Untargeted Bindings

You may create bindings without specifying a target. This is most useful for concrete classes. An untargetted binding informs the injector about a type, so it may prepare dependencies eagerly. Untargetted bindings have no to clause, like so:

$this->bind(MyConcreteClass::class);
$this->bind(AnotherConcreteClass::class)->in(Scope::SINGLETON);

Note: Untargeted binding does not currently support the annotatedWith() clause.

Constructor Bindings

When #[Inject] attribute cannot be applied to the target constructor or setter method because it is a third party class, Or you simply don’t like to use annotations. Constructor Binding provide the solution to this problem. By calling your target constructor explicitly, you don’t need reflection and its associated pitfalls. But there are limitations of that approach: manually constructed instances do not participate in AOP.

To address this, Ray.Di has toConstructor bindings.

$this->bind($interfaceName)
    ->toConstructor(
        $className,       // Class name
        $name,            // Qualifier
        $injectionPoint,  // Setter injection
        $postConstruct    // Initialize method
    );

(new InjectionPoints) 
    ->addMethod('setGuzzle')                 // Setter injection method name
    ->addOptionalMethod('setOptionalToken'); // Optional setter injection method name

Parameter

class_name

Class name

name

Parameter name binding.

If you want to add an identifier to the argument, specify an array with the variable name as the key and the value as the name of the identifier.

[
	[$param_name1 => $binding_name1],
	...
]

The following string formats are also supported

'param_name1=binding_name1&...'

setter_injection

Specify the method name ($methodName) and qualifier ($named) of the setter injector in the InjectionPoints object.

(new InjectionPoints)
	->addMethod($methodName1)
	->addMethod($methodName2, $named)
    ->addOptionalMethod($methodName, $named);

postConstruct

Ray.Di will invoke that constructor and setter method to satisfy the binding and invoke in $postConstruct method after all dependencies are injected.

PDO Example

Here is the example for the native PDO class.

public PDO::__construct ( string $dsn [, string $username [, string $password [, array $options ]]] )

$this->bind(\PDO::class)->toConstructor(
  \PDO::class,
  [
    'dsn' => 'pdo_dsn',
    'username' => 'pdo_username',
    'password' => 'pdo_password'
  ]
)->in(Scope::SINGLETON);
$this->bind()->annotatedWith('pdo_dsn')->toInstance($dsn);
$this->bind()->annotatedWith('pdo_username')->toInstance(getenv('db_user'));
$this->bind()->annotatedWith('pdo_password')->toInstance(getenv('db_password'));

Since no argument of PDO has a type, it binds with the Name Binding of the second argument of the toConstructor() method. In the above example, the variable username is given the identifier pdo_username, and toInstance binds the value of the environment variable.

Built-in Bindings

More bindings that you can use

NOTE: It’s very rare that you’d need to use those built-in bindings.

The Injector

In framework code, sometimes you don’t know the type you need until runtime. In this rare case you should inject the injector. Code that injects the injector does not self-document its dependencies, so this approach should be done sparingly.

Providers

For every type Ray.Di knows about, it can also inject a Provider of that type. Injecting Providers describes this in detail.

Multi-bundling

Multi bindings allow multiple implementations to be injected for a type. It is explained in detail in MultiBindings.

Multibindings

Overview of Multibinder, MapBinder

Multibinder is intended for plugin-type architectures.

Multibinding

Using Multibinder to host plugins.

Multibinder

Multibindings make it easy to support plugins in your application. Made popular by IDEs and browsers, this pattern exposes APIs for extending the behaviour of an application.

Neither the plugin consumer nor the plugin author need write much setup code for extensible applications with Ray.Di. Simply define an interface, bind implementations, and inject sets of implementations! Any module can create a new Multibinder to contribute bindings to a set of implementations. To illustrate, we’ll use plugins to summarize ugly URIs like http://bit.ly/1mzgW1 into something readable on Twitter.

First, we define an interface that plugin authors can implement. This is usually an interface that lends itself to several implementations. For this example, we would write a different implementation for each website that we could summarize.

interface UriSummarizerInterface
{
    /**
     * Returns a short summary of the URI, or null if this summarizer doesn't
     * know how to summarize the URI.
     */
    public function summarize(Uri $uri): string;
}

Next, we’ll get our plugin authors to implement the interface. Here’s an implementation that shortens Flickr photo URLs:

class FlickrPhotoSummarizer implements UriSummarizerInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        private readonly PhotoPatternMatcherInterface $matcher
    ) {}

    public function summarize(Uri $uri): ?string
    {
        $match = $this->matcher->match($uri);
        if (! $match) {
            return null;
        }
        $id = $this->matcher->group(1);
        $photo = Photo::lookup($id);

        return $photo->getTitle();
    }
  }
}

The plugin author registers their implementation using a multibinder. Some plugins may bind multiple implementations, or implementations of several extension-point interfaces.

class FlickrPluginModule extends AbstractModule
{
    public function configure(): void 
    {
        $uriBinder = Multibinder::newInstance($this, UriSummarizerInterface::class);
        $uriBinder->addBinding()->to(FlickrPhotoSummarizer::class);

        // ...bind plugin dependencies, such as our Flickr API key
   }
}

Now we can consume the services exposed by our plugins. In this case, we’re summarizing tweets:

class TweetPrettifier
{
    /**
     * @param Map<UriSummarizerInterface> $summarizers
     */
    public function __construct(
        #[Set(UriSummarizerInterface::class)] private readonly Map $summarizers
        private readonly EmoticonImagifier $emoticonImagifier,
    ) {}
    
    public function prettifyTweet(String tweetMessage): Html
    {
        // split out the URIs and call prettifyUri() for each
    }

    public function prettifyUri(Uri $uri): string
    {
        // loop through the implementations, looking for one that supports this URI
        foreach ($this->summarizers as $summarizer) {
            $summary = $summarizer->summarize($uri);
            if ($summary != null) {
                return $summary;
            }
       }

        // no summarizer found, just return the URI itself
        return $uri->toString();
    }
}

Note: The method Multibinder::newInstance($module, $type) can be confusing. This operation creates a new binder, but doesn’t override any existing bindings. A binder created this way contributes to the existing Set of implementations for that type. It would create a new set only if one is not already bound.

Finally we must register the plugins themselves. The simplest mechanism to do so is to list them programatically:

class PrettyTweets
{
    public function __invoke(): void
    {
        $injector = new Injector(
            new class extends AbstractModule {
                protected function configure(): void
                {
                    $this->install(new TweetModule());
                    $this->install(new FlickrPluginModule());
                    $this->install(new GoogleMapsPluginModule());
                    $this->install(new BitlyPluginModule());
                    // ... any other plugins
                }
            }
        );

        $injector->getInstance(Frontend::class)->start();
  }
}
(new PrettyTweets)();

MapBinder

You can name the classes you add in the multibinder.

class FlickrPluginModule extends AbstractModule
{
    public function configure(): void 
    {
        $uriBinder = Multibinder::newInstance($this, UriSummarizerInterface::class);
        $uriBinder->addBinding('flickr')->to(FlickrPhotoSummarizer::class);

        // ...bind plugin dependencies, such as our Flickr API key
   }
}

In the application, you can retrieve a Map injected by specifying attributes such as #[Set(UriSummarizer::class)] with the name as it was when specified by the binding.

class TweetPrettifier
{
    /**
     * @param Map<UriSummarizerInterface> $summarizers
     */
    public function __construct(
        #[Set(UriSummarizer::class)] private readonly Map $summarizers
    ) {}

    public function doSomething(): void
    {
        $flickrSummarizer = $this->summarizers['flickr'];
        assert($flickrSummarizer instanceof FlickrPhotoSummarizer);
    }    
}

Set binding

The setBinding() method overrides any previous binding.

$uriBinder = Multibinder::newInstance($this, UriSummarizerInterface::class);
$uriBinder->setBinding('flickr')->to(FlickrPhotoSummarizer::class);

Map

Map objects are treated as generics in static analysis. If the injected interface is T, it is written as Map<T>.

/** @param Map<UriSummarizerInterface> $summarizers **/

Annotation

Since it is not possible to annotate the argument, annotate the property to be assigned with the same name and annotate the property with @Set.

class TweetPrettifier
{
    /** @Set(UriSummarizer::class) */
    private $summarizers;
    
    /**
     * @param Map<UriSummarizerInterface> $summarizers
     */
    public function __construct(Map $summarizers) {
        $this->summarizers = $summarizers;
    }
}

Contextual Provider Bindings

You may want to create an object using the context when binding with Provider. For example, you want to inject different connection destinations on the same DB interface. In such a case, we bind it by specifying the context (string) with toProvider ().

$dbConfig = ['user' => $userDsn, 'job'=> $jobDsn, 'log' => $logDsn];
$this->bind()->annotatedWith('db_config')->toInstance(dbConfig);
$this->bind(Connection::class)->annotatedWith('usr_db')->toProvider(DbalProvider::class, 'user');
$this->bind(Connection::class)->annotatedWith('job_db')->toProvider(DbalProvider::class, 'job');
$this->bind(Connection::class)->annotatedWith('log_db')->toProvider(DbalProvider::class, 'log');

Providers are created for each context.

use Ray\Di\Di\Inject;
use Ray\Di\Di\Named;

class DbalProvider implements ProviderInterface, SetContextInterface
{
    private $dbConfigs;

    public function setContext($context)
    {
        $this->context = $context;
    }

    public function __construct(
        private #[Named('db_config')] array $dbConfigs
    ){}

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function get()
    {
        $config = $this->dbConfigs[$this->context];
        $conn = DriverManager::getConnection($config);

        return $conn;
    }
}

It is the same interface, but you can receive different connections made by Provider.

public function __construct(
    #[Named('user')] private readonly Connection $userDb,
    #[Named('job')] private readonly Connection $jobDb,
    #[Named('log')] private readonly Connection $logDb
) {}

Null Object Binding

A Null Object is an object that implements an interface but whose methods do nothing. When bound with toNull(), the code of the Null Object is generated from the interface and bound to the generated instance. This is useful for testing and AOP.

$this->bind(CreditCardProcessorInterface::class)->toNull();

Injections

How Ray.Di initializes your objects

The dependency injection pattern separates behaviour from dependency resolution. Rather than looking up dependencies directly or from factories, the pattern recommends that dependencies are passed in. The process of setting dependencies into an object is called injection.

Constructor Injection

Constructor injection combines instantiation with injection. This constructor should accept class dependencies as parameters. Most constructors will then assign the parameters to properties. You do not need #[Inject] attribute in constructor.

public function __construct(DbInterface $db)
{
    $this->db = $db;
}

Setter Injection

Ray.Di can inject by methods that have the #[Inject] attribute. Dependencies take the form of parameters, which the injector resolves before invoking the method. Injected methods may have any number of parameters, and the method name does not impact injection.

use Ray\Di\Di\Inject;

#[Inject]
public function setDb(DbInterface $db)
{
    $this->db = $db;
}

Property Injection

Ray.Di does not support property injection.

Assisted Injection

Also called method-call injection action injection, or Invocation injection.It is also possible to inject dependencies directly in the invoke method parameter(s). When doing this, add the dependency to the end of the arguments and add #[Assisted] to the parameter(s). You need null default for that parameter.

Note that this Assisted Injection is different from the one in Google Guice.

use Ray\Di\Di\Assisted;

public function doSomething(string $id, #[Assisted] DbInterface $db = null)
{
    $this->db = $db;
}

You can also provide dependency which depends on other dynamic parameter in method invocation. MethodInvocationProvider provides MethodInvocation object.

class HorizontalScaleDbProvider implements ProviderInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        private readonly MethodInvocationProvider $invocationProvider
    ){}

    public function get()
    {
        $methodInvocation = $this->invocationProvider->get();
        [$id] = $methodInvocation->getArguments()->getArrayCopy();
        
        return UserDb::withId($id); // $id for database choice.
    }
}

This injection done by AOP is powerful and useful for injecting objects that are only determined at method execution time, as described above. However, this injection is outside the scope of the original IOC and should only be used when really necessary.

Optional Injections

Occasionally it’s convenient to use a dependency when it exists and to fall back to a default when it doesn’t. Method and field injections may be optional, which causes Ray.Di to silently ignore them when the dependencies aren’t available. To use optional injection, apply the #[Inject(optional: true)]attribute:

class PayPalCreditCardProcessor implements CreditCardProcessorInterface
{
    private const SANDBOX_API_KEY = "development-use-only";
    private string $apiKey = self::SANDBOX_API_KEY;
    
    #[Inject(optional: true)]
    public function setApiKey(#[Named('paypal-apikey')] string $apiKey): void
    {
       $this->apiKey = $apiKey;
    }
}

Injecting Providers

With normal dependency injection, each type gets exactly one instance of each of its dependent types. The RealBillingService gets one CreditCardProcessor and one TransactionLog. Sometimes you want more than one instance of your dependent types. When this flexibility is necessary, Ray.Di binds a provider. Providers produce a value when the get() method is invoked:

/**
 * @template T
 */
interface ProviderInterface
{
    /**
     * @return T
     */
    public function get();
}

The type provided by the provider is specified by the #[Set] attribute.

class RealBillingService implements BillingServiceInterface
{
    /**
     * @param ProviderInterface<CreditCardProcessorInterface> $processorProvider
     * @param ProviderInterface<TransactionLogInterface>      $transactionLogProvider
     */
    public function __construct(
        #[Set(CreditCardProcessorInterface::class)] private ProviderInterface $processorProvider,
        #[Set(TransactionLogInterface::class)] private ProviderInterface $transactionLogProvider
    ) {}

    public function chargeOrder(PizzaOrder $order, CreditCard $creditCard): Receipt
    {
        $transactionLog = $this->transactionLogProvider->get();
        $processor = $this->processorProvider->get();
        
        /* use the processor and transaction log here */
    }
}

To support generics in static analysis, you need to set @param in phpdoc to ProviderInterface<TransactionLogInterface> or ProviderInterface<Cre ditCardProcessorInterface> and so on. The type of the instance obtained by the get() method is specified and checked by static analysis.

Providers for multiple instances

Use providers when you need multiple instances of the same type. Suppose your application saves a summary entry and a details when a pizza charge fails. With providers, you can get a new entry whenever you need one:

class LogFileTransactionLog implements TransactionLogInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        #[Set(TransactionLogInterface::class)] private readonly ProviderInterface $logFileProvider
    ) {}
    
    public function logChargeResult(ChargeResult $result): void {
        $summaryEntry = $this->logFileProvider->get();
        $summaryEntry->setText("Charge " + (result.wasSuccessful() ? "success" : "failure"));
        $summaryEntry->save();
        
        if (! $result->wasSuccessful()) {
            $detailEntry = $this->logFileProvider->get();
            $detailEntry->setText("Failure result: " + result);
            $detailEntry->save();
        }
    }
}

Providers for lazy loading

If you’ve got a dependency on a type that is particularly expensive to produce, you can use providers to defer that work. This is especially useful when you don’t always need the dependency:

class LogFileTransactionLog implements TransactionLogInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        #[Set(Connection::class)] private ProviderInterface $connectionProvider
    ) {}
    
    public function logChargeResult(ChargeResult $result) {
        /* only write failed charges to the database */
        if (! $result->wasSuccessful()) {
            $connection = $connectionProvider->get();
        }
    }

Providers for Mixing Scopes

Directly injecting an object with a narrower scope usually causes unintended behavior in your application. In the example below, suppose you have a singleton ConsoleTransactionLog that depends on the request-scoped current user. If you were to inject the user directly into the ConsoleTransactionLog constructor, the user would only be evaluated once for the lifetime of the application. This behavior isn’t correct because the user changes from request to request. Instead, you should use a Provider. Since Providers produce values on-demand, they enable you to mix scopes safely:

class ConsoleTransactionLog implements TransactionLogInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        #[Set(User::class)] private readonly ProviderInterface $userProvider
    ) {}
    
    public function logConnectException(UnreachableException $e): void
    {
        $user = $this->userProvider->get();
        echo "Connection failed for " . $user . ": " . $e->getMessage();
    }
}

Object Life Cycle

#[PostConstruct] is used on methods that need to get executed after dependency injection has finalized to perform any extra initialization.

use Ray\Di\Di\PostConstruct;

#[PostConstruct]
public function init()
{
    //....
}

Ray.Di Best Practices

Graphing Ray.Di Applications

When you’ve written a sophisticated application, Ray.Di rich introspection API can describe the object graph in detail. The object-visual-grapher exposes this data as an easily understandable visualization. It can show the bindings and dependencies from several classes in a complex application in a unified diagram.

Generating a .dot file

Ray.Di’s grapher leans heavily on GraphViz, an open source graph visualization package. It cleanly separates graph specification from visualization and layout. To produce a graph .dot file for an Injector, you can use the following code:

use Ray\ObjectGrapher\ObjectGrapher;

$dot = (new ObjectGrapher)(new FooModule);
file_put_contents('path/to/graph.dot', $dot);

The .dot file

Executing the code above produces a .dot file that specifies a graph. Each entry in the file represents either a node or an edge in the graph. Here’s a sample .dot file:

digraph injector {
graph [rankdir=TB];
dependency_BEAR_Resource_ResourceInterface_ [style=dashed, margin=0.02, label=<<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" cellborder="0" border="0"><tr><td align="left" port="header" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font color="#000000">BEAR\\Resource\\ResourceInterface<br align="left"/></font></td></tr></table>>, shape=box]
dependency_BEAR_Resource_FactoryInterface_ [style=dashed, margin=0.02, label=<<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" cellborder="0" border="0"><tr><td align="left" port="header" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font color="#000000">BEAR\\Resource\\FactoryInterface<br align="left"/></font></td></tr></table>>, shape=box]
dependency_BEAR_Resource_ResourceInterface_ -> class_BEAR_Resource_Resource [style=dashed, arrowtail=none, arrowhead=onormal]
dependency_BEAR_Resource_FactoryInterface_ -> class_BEAR_Resource_Factory [style=dashed, arrowtail=none, arrowhead=onormal]
}

Rendering the .dot file

You can then paste that code into GraphvizOnlineto render it.

On Linux, you can use the command-line dot tool to convert .dot files into images.

dot -T png graph.dot > graph.png

graph

Graph display

Edges:

Solid edges represent dependencies from implementations to the types they depend on.
Dashed edges represent bindings from types to their implementations.
Double arrows indicate that the binding or dependency is to a Provider.

Nodes:

Implementation types are given black backgrounds.
Implementation instances have gray backgrounds.

Frameworks integration

Performance boost

Injectors that know all dependency bindings can compile simple PHP factory code from those bindings and provide the best performance. Injectors that don’t use anonymous functions for bindings can be serialized, which can improve performance.

In any case, there is no need to initialize the container for every request in production.

Script injector

ScriptInjector generates raw factory code for better performance and to clarify how the instance is created.

use Ray\Di\ScriptInjector;
use Ray\Compiler\DiCompiler;
use Ray\Compiler\Exception\NotCompiled;

try {
    $injector = new ScriptInjector($tmpDir);
    $instance = $injector->getInstance(ListerInterface::class);
} catch (NotCompiled $e) {
    $compiler = new DiCompiler(new ListerModule, $tmpDir);
    $compiler->compile();
    $instance = $injector->getInstance(ListerInterface::class);
}

Once an instance has been created, You can view the generated factory files in $tmpDir

Cache injector

The injector is serializable. It also boosts the performance.

// save
$injector = new Injector(new ListerModule);
$cachedInjector = serialize($injector);

// load
$injector = unserialize($cachedInjector);
$lister = $injector->getInstance(ListerInterface::class);

CachedInjectorFactory

The CachedInjectorFactory can be used in a hybrid of the two injectors to achieve the best performance in both development and production.

The injector is able to inject singleton objects beyond the request, greatly increasing the speed of testing. Successive PDO connections also do not run out of connection resources in the test.

See CachedInjectorFactory for more information.

Attribute Reader

When not using Doctrine annotations, you can improve performance during development by using only PHP8 attribute readers.

  "autoload": {
    "files": [
      "vendor/ray/aop/attribute_reader.php"
    ]

Or set in bootstrap script.

declare(strict_types=1);

use Koriym\Attributes\AttributeReader;
use Ray\ServiceLocator\ServiceLocator;

ServiceLocator::setReader(new AttributeReader());

Backward Compatibility

We will not break backward compatibility.

Ray.Di 2.0 was first released in 2015 and since then we’ve been supporting the latest PHP and adding features; we may no longer support PHP that has become deprecated, but we have never broken backwards compatibility, and we plan to continue to do so.

The reverse case is not an error: it’s fine to provide something even if ↩

Ray.Di Complete Manual

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Dependency Injection with Ray.Di

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Getting Started

What is dependency injection?

Core Ray.Di concepts

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Ray.Di modules

Ray.Di injectors

A simple Ray.Di application

What’s next?

Ray.Di Mental Model

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Module Install

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Constructor Injection

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Property Injection

Assisted Injection

Optional Injections

Injecting Providers

Providers for multiple instances

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Providers for Mixing Scopes

Object Life Cycle

Ray.Di Best Practices

Graphing Ray.Di Applications

Generating a .dot file

The .dot file

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Graph display

Frameworks integration

Performance boost

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CachedInjectorFactory

Attribute Reader

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