In order to simplify access to IoC container in your application and enable some of "magick" functionality Spiral relays on global static instance of ContainerInterface:
\App::sharedContainer()->get('views')->render(...);
//Alternative
spiral('views')->render(...);
Please note that such container is only available inside your application (run method) and usually initiated as scope by following constructions:
$scope = self::staticContainer($container);
try {
//Execute your application
} finally {
self::staticContainer($scope);
}
This approach provides ability to avoid global state and allow multiple spiral applications co-exists in one session.
Shared container support lazy functinonality for paginators, loggers and debug, all components can work without it.
You can always get access to active container by extending Component in your code and calling function iocContainer:
protected function iocContainer()
{
if (
property_exists($this, 'container')
&& isset($this->container)
&& $this->container instanceof ContainerInterface
) {
return $this->container;
}
//Fallback!
return self::$staticContainer;
}
In some cases (usually inside middlewares or HMVC cores) you might want to create IoC scope for some of your classes/interfaces, use replace/restore methods of ScoperInterface/ContainerInterface to do that:
$outerBinding = $this->container->replace(SomeClass::class, new SomeClassB());
try {
//Every dependency of `SomeClass` will be resolved with SomeClassB
} finally {
//We can now restore original binding (if any)
$this->container->restore($outerBinding);
}