Framework - Bootloaders
Bootloaders are the central piece in Spiral Framework and your application. These objects are responsible for Container configuration, default configuration, etc.
Bootloaders only executed once while loading your application. Since the app will stay in memory for long - you can add as many code to your bootloaders as you want. It will not cause any performance effect on runtime.
Simple Bootloader
You can create simple Bootloader by extending Spiral\Boot\Bootloader\Bootloader class:
namespace App\Bootloader;
use Spiral\Boot\Bootloader\Bootloader;
class MyBootloader extends Bootloader
{
}
Every Bootloader must be activated in your application kernel. Add the class reference into LOAD or APP lists of
your App\App class:
namespace App;
use Spiral\Framework\Kernel;
use App\Bootloader\RoutesBootloader;
use App\Bootloader\LoggingBootloader;
use App\Bootloader\MyBootloader;
class App extends Kernel
{
protected const LOAD = [
// ...
];
protected const APP = [
RoutesBootloader::class,
LoggingBootloader::class,
MyBootloader::class
];
}
Currently, your Bootloader doesn't do anything. We can start by adding some container bindings.
Note
APPbootloader namespace always loaded afterLOAD, keep domain-specific bootloaders in it.
Configuring Container
The most common use-case of bootloaders is to configure DI container, for example, we might want to bind multiple implementations to their interfaces or construct some service.
We can use the method boot for these purposes. Method support method injection, so we can request any services we
need:
namespace App\Bootloader;
use Spiral\Core\Container;
use App\MyClassInterface;
use App\MyClass;
use App\MyService;
class MyBootloader extends Bootloader
{
public function boot(Container $container): void
{
$container->bind(MyClassInterface::class, MyClass::class);
$container->bindSingleton(MyService::class, function(MyClass $myClass) {
return new MyService($myClass);
});
}
}
Bootloaders provide the ability to simplify container binding definition using constants BINDINGS and SINGLETONS.
namespace App\Bootloader;
use Spiral\Core\Container;
use App\MyClassInterface;
use App\MyClass;
use App\MyService;
class MyBootloader extends Bootloader
{
const BINDINGS = [
MyInterface::class => MyClass::class
];
public function boot(Container $container): void
{
$container->bindSingleton(MyService::class, function(MyClass $myClass) {
return new MyService($myClass);
});
}
}
You can also replace factory closures with factory methods:
namespace App\Bootloader;
use App\MyClassInterface;
use App\MyClass;
use App\MyService;
class MyBootloader extends Bootloader
{
const BINDINGS = [
MyInterface::class => MyClass::class
];
const SINGLETONS = [
MyService::class => [self::class, 'myService']
];
protected function myService(MyClass $myClass): MyService
{
return new MyService($myClass);
}
}
Configuring Application
Another common use case of bootloaders is to configure the framework before the application launch. For example, we can declare new route for our application or module:
namespace App\Bootloader;
use Spiral\Router\RouterInterface;
use Spiral\Router\Target\Controller;
use Spiral\Router\Route;
class MyBootloader extends Bootloader
{
public function boot(RouterInterface $router): void
{
$router->setRoute(
'my-route',
new Route('/<action>', new Controller(MyController::class))
);
}
}
Note
Identically, you can mount middleware, change tokenizer directories, and much more.
Depending on other Bootloaders
Some framework bootloaders can be used as a simple path to configure application settings. For example, we can
use Spiral\Bootloader\Http\HttpBootloader to add global PSR-15 middleware:
namespace App\Bootloader;
use Spiral\Bootloader\Http\HttpBootloader;
use App\Middleware\MyMiddleware;
class MyBootloader extends Bootloader
{
public function boot(HttpBootloader $http): void
{
$http->addMiddleware(MyMiddleware::class);
}
}
If you want to ensure that HttpBootloader has always been initiated before MyBootloader use
constant DEPENDENCIES:
namespace App\Bootloader;
use Spiral\Bootloader\Http\HttpBootloader;
use App\Middleware\MyMiddleware;
class MyBootloader extends Bootloader
{
const DEPENDENCIES = [
HttpBootloader::class
];
public function boot(HttpBootloader $http): void
{
$http->addMiddleware(MyMiddleware::class);
}
}
Note
Note, you are only able to use bootloaders to configure your components during the bootstrap phase (a.k.a. via another bootloader). The framework would not allow you to change any configuration value after component initialization.
Cascade bootloading
You can control the bootload process using Bootloader itself, simply request Spiral\Boot\BootloadManager:
namespace App\Bootloader;
use Spiral\Boot\Bootloader\Bootloader;
use Spiral\Boot\BootloadManager;
use Spiral\Bootloader\DebugBootloader;
use Spiral\Boot\EnvironmentInterface;
class AppBootloader extends Bootloader
{
public function boot(BootloadManager $bootloadManager, EnvironmentInterface $env): void
{
if ($env->get('DEBUG')) {
$bootloadManager->bootload([
DebugBootloader::class
]);
}
}
}