Private properties of parent classes not injected properly by Container::injectOn()?

[holtkamp]

When using Modules in a ZF1 project, it is common to have controllers like this.

class Default_OrderController 
{
    /**
     * @inject
     * @var \Project\Domain\Service\Order
     */
    private $orderDomainService

    public function doSomething()
    {
        $this->orderDomainService->doSomeBusinessStuff();
    }
}

class ModuleX_OrderController extends Default_OrderController
{
    //empty on purpose
}

Using the $this->orderDomainService property works for the default Module, but not for the other Modules. It seems that the current ZF1 integration of the DIC does not inject the values of private properties of parent Controllers / classes. When changing the access level of the property to 'protected', the property does get injected...

Is this intended behaviour of \DI\Container::injectOn() used by the bridge? It would be nice if the class hierarchy upstream is taken into account as well...

PS: offtopic: still looking for a way to get rid of these 'empty' controllers, but seems not possible in ZF1

[mnapoli]

If the property is private in the parent class, then it can't be accessed in child classes (it's just a limitation of PHP here). Does it answer your question?

[holtkamp]

yeah, I understand that. But as you can see the method exists 'in' the
parent class, it also is executed 'there', however, the current approach
does not injects the value in the property of the parent class.

Summarizing: the class hierarchy of a class (in this case a controller)
seems not respected by the injectOn().

Maybe check for existence of parents and also inject them...
On May 26, 2015 12:46 PM, "Matthieu Napoli" notifications@github.com
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If the property is private in the parent class, then it can't be accessed
in child classes (it's just a limitation of PHP here). Does it answer your
question?

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[mnapoli]

Ah OK I thought it worked in the parent class since you said this:

Using the $this->orderDomainService property works for the default Module, but not for the other Modules.

So it doesn't work in the parent class too if I understand correctly.

In that case this is indeed not normal as it should inject in all properties: we used the same pattern in another ZF1 project and I'm pretty sure we did something similar. I'm going to check a little more and come back to you.

[mnapoli]

OK you are right this is a bug! We did use that pattern but we made the properties protected so that we could use then in the subclasses.

FYI there is a test for that: https://github.com/mnapoli/PHP-DI/blob/5.0/tests/IntegrationTest/InheritanceTest.php#L23-L53 but it tests for public properties, not private ones.

I will fix this in 5.0 thank you for reporting it!

[holtkamp]

:), thanks for the swift responses!

Indeed, it works when using the default Module (which dispatches the
Default_OrderController). Only when using another Module, specialized
controllers are used, that is where the issue pops up. Glad you understood
me, great library BTW!
On May 26, 2015 3:08 PM, "Matthieu Napoli" notifications@github.com wrote:

Ah OK I thought it worked in the parent class since you said this:

Using the $this->orderDomainService property works for the default Module,
but not for the other Modules.

So it doesn't work in the parent class too if I understand correctly.

In that case this is indeed not normal as it should inject in all
properties: we used the same pattern in another ZF1 project and I'm pretty
sure we did something similar. I'm going to check a little more and come
back to you.

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[mnapoli]

Hi, FYI I will be rescheduling this issue to the next version. I'm sorry about that but v5.0 is ready to be released (I wanted to release this week) and when i started working on this issue I realized it requires a lot of work (at least more time than I have available right now).

In the meantime as a workaround you can define your properties as protected at injections will work.

[holtkamp]

Ok, 100% no stress ;).

Not sure whether it is related, but I once had to follow a class hierarchy 'stream upwards' as well. In my case to reset all properties to their default values. Especially the private properties were not that trivial. Maybe you can use it as inspiration to inspect upstream defined class/object properties.

https://gist.github.com/holtkamp/f3a2ad32ca3866297c0f

[mnapoli]

👍 thanks

[holtkamp]

@mnapoli, need help / extra eyes with this or have you already pinned down the cause of the mentioned behaviour?

[mnapoli]

@holtkamp sorry for the delay! I wrote a test reproducing it: https://github.com/PHP-DI/PHP-DI/compare/257-parent-private-properties But haven't started working on a fix yet :/

[holtkamp]

Great, just upgraded to https://github.com/PHP-DI/PHP-DI/tree/5.1.0 and everything works as expected when using private properties 👍