How to Call a Command from a Controller
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How to Call a Command from a Controller
The Console component documentation covers how to create a console command. This article covers how to use a console command directly from your controller.
You may have the need to execute some function that is only available in a console command. Usually, you should refactor the command and move some logic into a service that can be reused in the controller. However, when the command is part of a third-party library, you wouldn't want to modify or duplicate their code. Instead, you can execute the command directly.
Caution
In comparison with a direct call from the console, calling a command from a controller has a slight performance impact because of the request stack overhead.
Imagine you want to send spooled Swift Mailer messages by using the swiftmailer:spool:send command. Run this command from inside your controller via:
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// src/Controller/SpoolController.php
namespace App\Controller;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Console\Application;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\AbstractController;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArrayInput;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\BufferedOutput;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\KernelInterface;
class SpoolController extends AbstractController
{
public function sendSpool($messages = 10, KernelInterface $kernel)
{
$application = new Application($kernel);
$application->setAutoExit(false);
$input = new ArrayInput([
'command' => 'swiftmailer:spool:send',
// (optional) define the value of command arguments
'fooArgument' => 'barValue',
// (optional) pass options to the command
'--message-limit' => $messages,
]);
// You can use NullOutput() if you don't need the output
$output = new BufferedOutput();
$application->run($input, $output);
// return the output, don't use if you used NullOutput()
$content = $output->fetch();
// return new Response(""), if you used NullOutput()
return new Response($content);
}
}Showing Colorized Command Output
By telling the BufferedOutput it is decorated via the second parameter,
it will return the Ansi color-coded content. The SensioLabs AnsiToHtml converter
can be used to convert this to colorful HTML.
First, require the package:
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$ composer require sensiolabs/ansi-to-htmlNow, use it in your controller:
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// src/Controller/SpoolController.php
namespace App\Controller;
use SensioLabs\AnsiConverter\AnsiToHtmlConverter;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\BufferedOutput;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
// ...
class SpoolController extends AbstractController
{
public function sendSpool($messages = 10)
{
// ...
$output = new BufferedOutput(
OutputInterface::VERBOSITY_NORMAL,
true // true for decorated
);
// ...
// return the output
$converter = new AnsiToHtmlConverter();
$content = $output->fetch();
return new Response($converter->convert($content));
}
}The AnsiToHtmlConverter can also be registered as a Twig Extension,
and supports optional themes.
