How to Retrieve the Request from the Service Container

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As of Symfony 2.4, instead of injecting the request service, you should inject the request_stack service and access the Request by calling the getCurrentRequest() method:

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namespace AppBundle\Newsletter;

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RequestStack;

class NewsletterManager
{
    protected $requestStack;

    public function __construct(RequestStack $requestStack)
    {
        $this->requestStack = $requestStack;
    }

    public function anyMethod()
    {
        $request = $this->requestStack->getCurrentRequest();
        // ... do something with the request
    }

    // ...
}

Now, just inject the request_stack, which behaves like any normal service:

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# src/AppBundle/Resources/config/services.yml
services:
    newsletter_manager:
        class:     AppBundle\Newsletter\NewsletterManager
        arguments: ["@request_stack"]

Why not Inject the request Service?

Almost all Symfony2 built-in services behave in the same way: a single instance is created by the container which it returns whenever you get it or when it is injected into another service. There is one exception in a standard Symfony2 application: the request service.

If you try to inject the request into a service, you will probably receive a ScopeWideningInjectionException exception. That's because the request can change during the life-time of a container (when a sub-request is created for instance).

Tip

If you define a controller as a service then you can get the Request object without injecting the container by having it passed in as an argument of your action method. See Controller for details.

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