Service Closures

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This feature wraps the injected service into a closure allowing it to be lazily loaded when and if needed. This is useful if the service being injected is a bit heavy to instantiate or is used only in certain cases. The service is instantiated the first time the closure is called, while all subsequent calls return the same instance, unless the service is not shared:

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        // src/Service/MyService.php
namespace App\Service;

use Symfony\Component\Mailer\MailerInterface;

class MyService
{
    /**
     * @param callable(): MailerInterface
     */
    public function __construct(
        private \Closure $mailer,
    ) {
    }

    public function doSomething(): void
    {
        // ...

        $this->getMailer()->send($email);
    }

    private function getMailer(): MailerInterface
    {
        return ($this->mailer)();
    }
}
    

To define a service closure and inject it to another service, create an argument of type service_closure:

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        # config/services.yaml
services:
    App\Service\MyService:
        arguments: [!service_closure '@mailer']

        # In case the dependency is optional
        # arguments: [!service_closure '@?mailer']
    

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

    <services>
        <service id="App\Service\MyService">
            <argument type="service_closure" id="mailer"/>

            <!--
            In case the dependency is optional
            <argument type="service_closure" id="mailer" on-invalid="ignore"/>
            -->
        </service>
    </services>
</container>
    

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        // config/services.php
namespace Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader\Configurator;

use App\Service\MyService;

return function (ContainerConfigurator $container): void {
    $services = $container->services();

    $services->set(MyService::class)
        ->args([service_closure('mailer')]);

    // In case the dependency is optional
    // $services->set(MyService::class)
    //     ->args([service_closure('mailer')->ignoreOnInvalid()]);
};
    

Using a Service Closure in a Compiler Pass

In compiler passes you can create a service closure by wrapping the service reference into an instance of ServiceClosureArgument:

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        use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Argument\ServiceClosureArgument;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Reference;

public function process(ContainerBuilder $container): void
{
    // ...

    $myService->addArgument(new ServiceClosureArgument(new Reference('mailer')));
}
    

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