interesting DI idea

[craigh]

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/doctrine-user/ZLttjX1ZTPQ/5GgM8_JDZmwJ

I don't relly like the usage of strings when the same value is used all over the project. To write 100x 'MyNamespace\Model\MyEntity' is quite bad if you want to refactor things some times.

response:

Declare the entity classes in config files, inject the repositories with DI

parameters:
    my.entity.class: MyNamespace\MyEntity

service:
    my.repository:
        class: MyRepo
        factory_service: doctrine.orm.entity_manager
        factory_method: getRepository
        arguments:
            - %my.entity.class%

this could maybe be something to try (in any project, I just decided to post it here)

[cmfcmf]

Interesting indeed! I like it!

[Guite]

Yes, this is very recommended. It also allows to extend/override entity classes with ease, thus MOST-based modules do it similarly utilising a factory class for retrieving new entity instances or corresponding repositories.