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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions service_container/autowiring.rst
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Expand Up @@ -341,6 +341,15 @@ Thanks to the ``App\Util\TransformerInterface`` alias, the autowiring subsystem
knows that the ``App\Util\Rot13Transformer`` service should be injected when
dealing with the ``TransformerInterface``.

.. tip::

As long as you have only one concrete implementation of an interface under same
namespace, alias is not mandatory and autowire will work injecting the concrete
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I would reword this a bit:

As long as there is only one class implementing the interface and that class is part of the same namespace configuring the alias is not mandatory and Symfony will automatically create one.

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LGTM, I'm gonna change to suggested sentence.

implementation even without alias definition.
Neverthless is recommended to provide an alias in order to preserve application
logic when a second concrete implementation kicks in, otherwise compiler compilation
would throw an exception.

Dealing with Multiple Implementations of the Same Type
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