Added getParameter() to ControllerTrait¶

Contributed by
Robin Chalas
in #25439.

Symfony comes with two optional base classes for controllers: Controller and AbstractController. They are similar but AbstractController is recommended because it's more restrictive: it does not allow you to access services directly via $this->get() or $this->container->get().

In Symfony 4.1, we improved AbstractController to add the commonly used helper getParameter() to get the value of any container config parameter. This change will allow to transition from Controller to AbstractController more easily.

Anonymous services in PHP DSL¶

Contributed by
Nikita Konstantinov
in #24632.

In Symfony 3.4 we introduced a PHP DSL to configure routes and services. In Symfony 4.1 we improved it adding support for anonymous services, which is useful when you don't care about the service name (e.g. when decorating services).

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// app/config/services.php
return function (ContainerConfigurator $container) {
    $services = $container->services();
    // to create an anonymous service, pass null as its ID argument
    $services->set(null, stdClass::class)->tag('listener');
};

Added support for extracting type from constructor¶

Contributed by
Grégoire Pineau
in #25605.

In Symfony 4.1, the ReflectionExtractor class of the PropertyInfo component added a new $enableConstructorExtraction argument to allow introspecting property information using the constructor arguments.

Consider the following example:

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class SomeClass
{
    public $property1;
    public $property2;

    public function __construct(string $property1, ?int $property2)
    {
        // ...
    }
}

In Symfony 4.1, when this option is enabled, PropertyInfo will tell you that property1 is a non-nullable string type and that property2 is a nullable integer.

Configurable PHP error log level¶

Contributed by
Hamza Amrouche
in #26504.

The framework.php_errors.log option allows to use the application logger instead of the PHP logger for logging PHP errors.

In Symfony 4.1, this option is no longer a boolean to enable/disable it. If you pass an integer value, you enable the feature and set the PHP logger to that logging level.