Defining dynamic service's during runtime

You need to RETURN $api. Like this in controller code. Also Defining it must be do in service closure.

$this->di->setShared('Api', function(){
    $Api = new Api(array('apiKey' => '...'));
    return $Api;
}); 

Jurigag:

Thaks for answer! You're right, it was my first syntax, but then I start to experiment and forgot to restore it.

My problem is that in OtherController.php I get:

Api Object ( [options:protected] => Array ( [apiKey] => ) )

with empty "apiKey" value, so it's useless...

Once again my whole code:

index.php

$di = new FactoryDefault();

$di->setShared('Api', function() { $Api = new Api(array('apiKey' => '')); return $Api; });

AuthControler.php

$di->setShared('Api', function() { $Api = new Api(array('apiKey' => 'xyz')); return $Api; });

OtherControler.php

$api = $this->di->getService('Api');

print_r($api); die;

Debug in OtherController.php display:

Api Object ( [options:protected] => Array ( [apiKey] => ) )

ps. how do You format your code in a comment? :)

There is how to format code in comment: use backticks.

Well try to change setShared to just set maybe. If it still dont work then try in AuthControler:

$di->get('Api')->setDefinition(function() { $Api = new Api(array('apiKey' => 'xyz')); return $Api; });

Also are you sure that instruction in AuthControler is called before instructions in OtherControler ?

Changing from Shared service to default service did not help and when I try to use setDefinition() as You suggest, I get "Call to undefined method Api::setDefinition()" :/

Oh sorry, instead of ->get('Api') try getService('Api') and then setDefinition.

Also are you sure that instruction in AuthControler is called before instructions in OtherControler ?

If you do it like this:

1. Request in AuthControler
2. Request in OtherControler without calling authcontroler previously

Then yea apiKey will be empty. You need to set it as some variable in memcache/session/persistent/in config or wherever else and get it in service definition. And pass to Api contructor.

Wait... what!? So I must define this service in every Controller? :) Ok, now I see my mistake but I thought the service can be defined once and then the service object is stored in memcache automatically ;)

Hmm so in this case defining Phalcon Service is pointless. I can save "apiKey" to Session object and then add $this->api = new Api(array('apiKey' => $this->session->get('apiKey'))); in ControllerBase() right? :)

My goal is to use Api class in every controller with "apiKey" from AuthController()->login() that is fired only once. Maybe is there a way to do that in more proper way?

If I get it correctly, you want to pass some arguments to the shared service, and by that way to dynamically change it's default definition?

It seems that this is the only working syntax:

Shared service name: bladeRunner

 $this->di->getBladeRunner([0x0a, 0xff]);

I wanted to avoid refering to DI always and using magic method getSharedService...

so I did it like this:

$di->setShared('bladeRunner', function (){
    class MyOverride extends OriginalClass
    {
        function myCustomOverride($id, $data) {
        //handle data from passed arguments 
        }
    }
    return new MyOverride();
    });

Finally, call the shared service and pass some data to it, this time with much simpler syntax:

 $this->bladeRunner->myCustomOverride([0x0a, 0xff]);

Hope this helps.

and defining manually specific method No, no, that data is just an example. :) That's why I was playing with hexadecimal notation, real data would be an array, object, etc... something generated during application lifecycle, in other words - dynamic data.

The point is how to pass parameters to the (shared) service and to pass that directly to the parent constructor.

Here's the key:

function ($acceptSomething) use ($di)

But to retain the syntax as:

 $this->bladeRunner->action([1, 2, 3]);

Without extending parent class, this is not possible.