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Version: 2023.3

Loading Service Definitions From Within a Bundle

If you want to load services from your bundle instead of having to define them in config/services.yaml you need to create a dependency injection extension which is able to load your service definitions. You can find detailed documentation on this topic here: Extensions Documentation.

As an example, we want to create an extension for the App which is able to load a config/services.yaml config file.

First, we need to create an extension class. The extension class name follows the convention that it is located in the DependencyInjection sub-namespace and that it is named the same as the bundle class, but with Bundle replaced with Extension. So for your MyBundle, we'll create the following extension:

<?php
// src/MyBundle/DependencyInjection/AppExtension.php

namespace MyBundle\DependencyInjection;

use Symfony\Component\Config\FileLocator;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Extension\Extension;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader\YamlFileLoader;

class AppExtension extends Extension
{
public function load(array $configs, ContainerBuilder $container): void
{
// create a YamlFileLoader - this could also be a XmlFileLoader if you want to load XML
$loader = new YamlFileLoader(
$container,
// looks in src/MyBundle/Resources/config
new FileLocator(__DIR__ . '/../Resources/config')
);

// load services.yaml
$loader->load('services.yaml');

// more load() calls as needed...
}
}

Next, we create the config file we're trying to load:

# config/services.yaml

services:
my_custom_class:
class: MyBundle\Custom\Class

The services.yml should now automatically be loaded and register the my_custom_class service on the container.