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THIS IS CONSIDERED TO BE AN ANTI-PATTERN!

Service Locator is considered for some people an anti-pattern. It violates the Dependency Inversion principle. Service Locator hides class' dependencies instead of exposing them as you would do using the Dependency Injection. In case of changes of those dependencies you risk to break the functionality of classes which are using them, making your system difficult to maintain.

Purpose

To implement a loosely coupled architecture in order to get better testable, maintainable and extendable code. DI pattern and Service Locator pattern are an implementation of the Inverse of Control pattern.

Usage

With ServiceLocator you can register a service for a given interface. By using the interface you can retrieve the service and use it in the classes of the application without knowing its implementation. You can configure and inject the Service Locator object on bootstrap.

UML Diagram

Alt ServiceLocator UML Diagram

Code

You can also find this code on GitHub

Service.php

Service.php

ServiceLocator.php

ServiceLocator.php

LogService.php

LogService.php

Test

Tests/ServiceLocatorTest.php

Tests/ServiceLocatorTest.php