Create a doctrine repository with dependencies (dependency injection) in ZF2

Question

I want to make a repository with hard dependencies. I found this blog post by Jurian Sluisman but he suggests getting the repository from the service manager an

Answer 1

Doctrine uses a factory class Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface\DefaultRepositoryFactory for creating repository instances. If no custom factory is set this default factory is created here in the getRepositoryFactory method in the Doctrine\ORM\Configuration class.

By defining a custom repository_factory we can overwrite this default factory class and add custom logic to the factory that will inject the hard dependencies:

To illustrate how you can do this I will show an example where the repository factory class creates repositories that are dependent on a ServiceLocator instance through constructor injection.

1) make a custom factory class that implements the doctrine RepositoryFactory interface

This class looks very similar to the doctrine DefaultRepositoryFactory class.

serviceLocator = $serviceLocator;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function getRepository(EntityManagerInterface $entityManager, $entityName)
    {
        $repositoryHash = $entityManager->getClassMetadata($entityName)->getName() . spl_object_hash($entityManager);

        if (isset($this->repositoryList[$repositoryHash])) {
            return $this->repositoryList[$repositoryHash];
        }

        return $this->repositoryList[$repositoryHash] = $this->createRepository($entityManager, $entityName);
    }

    /**
     * @param EntityManagerInterface $entityManager The EntityManager instance.
     * @param string                 $entityName    The name of the entity.
     * @return ObjectRepository
     */
    private function createRepository(EntityManagerInterface $entityManager, $entityName)
    {
        /* @var $metadata \Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ClassMetadata */
        $metadata            = $entityManager->getClassMetadata($entityName);
        $repositoryClassName = $metadata->customRepositoryClassName
            ?: $entityManager->getConfiguration()->getDefaultRepositoryClassName();

        // Constructor injection, I check with subclass of but it is just an example
        if(is_subclass_of($repositoryClassName, ServiceLocatorAwareInterface::class)){
            $serviceLocator = $this->getServiceLocator()
            $repository = new $repositoryClassName($entityManager, $metadata, $serviceLocator);
        }else{
            $repository = new $repositoryClassName($entityManager, $metadata);
        }
        return $repository;
    }
}

2) Create a factory for the repository factory

3) register the factory for the repository factory in the service_manager config

'service_manager' => array(
    'factories' => array(
        'My\ORM\Repository\CustomRepositoryFactory' => 'My\ORM\Repository\Factory\CustomRepositoryFactoryFactory'
    )
)

4) register the repository factory in the doctrine config

'doctrine' => array(
    'configuration' => array(
        'orm_default' => array(
            'repository_factory' => 'My\ORM\Repository\CustomRepositoryFactory'
        )
    )
)