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.. index::
single: Action Domain Responder approach

How to implement the ADR pattern
================================

In Symfony, you're used to implement the MVC pattern and extending the default :class:`Symfony\\Bundle\\FrameworkBundle\\Controller\\Controller`
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Symfony has never promoted the MVC pattern (at least, not since version 2). Instead, we are presenting Symfony as being a Request/Response framework where the controller converts a Request to a Response via a Controller.

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Yes, my apologies for this words, the meaning of my "text" was to clearly say that a lot of developers use Symfony with MVC and that using this pattern is way more used than just transforming a Request into Response (which is handled by the framework in a certain way, the actual transformation occurs in the controller).

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Since the 3.3 update, Symfony is capable of using natively the ADR approach.
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Maybe it is worth it to add a link to https://github.com/pmjones/adr


Update the configuration
------------------------

The first step is to update the default services.yaml file, here's the new content:

.. code-block:: yaml

parameters:
locale: 'en'

services:
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I suggest to add xml and PHP versions too.

_defaults:
autowire: true
autoconfigure: true
public: false

App\Actions\:
resource: '../src/Actions'
tags:
- 'controller.service_arguments'

Now that the container knows about our actions, time to build a simple Action !
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extra whitespace before the !


Updating your classes
---------------------

As the framework evolve, you must update your classes, first, delete your Controller folder and create an Actions one then a new class using the ADR principles, for this example, call it ``HelloAction.php``:
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typo: evolves


.. code-block:: php

<?php

namespace App\Action;

use App\Responders\HelloResponder;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

final class HelloAction
{
public function __invoke(HelloResponder $responder): Response
{
return $responder([
'text' => 'Hello World'
]);
}
}

.. tip::

As described in the DependencyInjection component documentation, you can still use the __construct() injection
approach.

By default, we define the class with the final keyword because this class shouldn't be extended,
the logic is pretty simple to understand as you understand the ADR pattern, in fact, the 'Action'
is linked to a single request and his dependencies are linked to this precise Action.

.. tip::

By using the final approach and the private visibility (inside the container), our class
is faster to return and easier to keep out of the framework logic.

Once this is done, you can define the routes like before using multiples approaches:

.. configuration-block::

.. code-block:: php-annotations

# src/AppBundle/Action/HelloAction.php
// ...

/**
* @Route("/hello", name="hello")
*/
final class HelloAction
{
// ...
}

.. code-block:: yaml

# app/config/routing.yml
hello:
path: /hello
defaults: { _controller: AppBundle\Action\HelloAction }

.. code-block:: xml

<!-- app/config/routing.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<routes xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/routing"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/routing
http://symfony.com/schema/routing/routing-1.0.xsd">

<route id="hello" path="/hello">
<default key="_controller">AppBundle\Action\HelloAction</default>
</route>

</routes>

.. code-block:: php

// app/config/routing.php
use AppBundle\Action\HelloAction

$collection->add('hello', new Route('/hello', array(
'_controller' => HelloAction::class,
)));

Creating a Responder
--------------------

As you can see in the __invoke call, this action require a ``HelloResponder`` class in order to build the response which is returned to the browser, first, update the services.yaml according to this need:

.. code-block:: yaml

parameters:
locale: 'en'

services:
_defaults:
autowire: true
autoconfigure: true
public: false

App\Actions\:
resource: '../src/Actions'
tags:
- 'controller.service_arguments'

App\Responders\:
resource: '../src/Responders'

Here, the container only need to know about the existence of the classes, nothing difficult to understand as the fact that our Responders are responsable of returning the actual Response to the browser, no need to add the 'controller.service_arguments' tags as the Responders need to be called using the __invoke method in order to receive data from the Action.

Now that the logic behind is clear, time to create the ``HelloResponder.php`` file:

.. code-block:: php

<?php

namespace App\Responders;

use Twig\Environment;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

final class HomeResponder
{
private $twig;

public function __construct(Environment $twig)
{
$this->twig = $twig;
}

public function __invoke(array $data)
{
return new Response(
$this->twig->render('index.html.twig', $data)
);
}
}

If the routing is clearly define, the browser should display the traditional "Hello World" using the ADR approach, congrats !

Accessing the request
---------------------

In many case, your classes can ask for any data passed via a form or via an API call,
as you can imagine, as the logic evolve, your class is capable of accessing the request
from a simple method injection like this:

.. code-block:: php

<?php

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
// ...

public function __invoke(Environment $twig, Request $request): Response
{
$id = $request->get('id');

return $twig->render('default/index.html.twig', array('id' => $id));
}
}

Final thought
-------------

Keep in mind that this approach can be completely different from what you're used to use, in order to
keep your code clean and easy to maintain, we recommend to use this approach only if your code is
decoupled from the internal framework logic (like with Clean Architecture approach) or if you start a new
project and need to keep the logic linked to your business rules.
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I don't understand this last paragraph and the supposed benefits. I don't see how this approach or what you refer to the old one is cleaner or easier. I don't understand why this approach is more decoupled than the other one. I'm not saying this is good or bad, just that from a beginner's perspective, the benefits are not very clear.

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Action-Domain-Response (ADR) pattern, you can simply refer to the service id
(``AppBundle\Controller\HelloController`` or ``app.hello_controller`` for example).

As this approach is evolving faster and can be easily transposed into Symfony, we recommend
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How is it evolving?

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At this stage, not so much, like before, there's was an error in the real sense of my words, ADR still young and the "logic" keep evolving with time and usage by the developers, the true meaning was to say that using ADR still a "WIP" in Symfony and as the "logic" of ADR still evolving by the feedbacks of the developers, his implementation inside Symfony can be modified with future evolution of the framework or pattern.

In fact, it was possible since Symfony 3.1 when recompiling the container (or like @dunglas do it, by injecting the classes as controllers and mapping the return of each one of them) but using it in production is way easier since 3.3 and 3.4 (and even easier in 4.0)

you to read the following part:

* :doc:`/controller/adr`

Alternatives to base Controller Methods
---------------------------------------

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