SettingsManagerBundle

Provides a nice way to define variables and inject them into application parts.

• Supporting bool, string, int, float, array as setting values.
• Multiple providers.
• User interface.

Jump to

• Quick start
• Usage
• Models
• Setting providers
• Configuration reference
• User interface
• Twig
• Controller

Quick start

1. composer require harmony/settings-manager-bundle

2. Register bundle to AppKernel.php (Symfony3) or config/bundles.php (Symfony4)

<?php

class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
    public function registerBundles()
    {
        return [
            new Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\HarmonySettingsManagerBundle(),
        ];
    }
}

3. Add an example configuration to app/config/config.yml (Symfony3) or config/packages/settings_manager.yaml (Symfony4)

harmony_settings_manager:
    settings:
        - name: foo
          description: 'foo desc'
          type: bool
          data: false
          tags:
              - 'super_switch'

        - name: baz
          description: 'master toggle for awesome new feature'
          type: string
          data: fish
          tags:
              - 'experimental'
              - 'poo'

4. Now, the easiest way to get settings in your services is by using SettingsRouterAwareTrait. The service will be automatically injected by autowire. Then just ask for setting:

use Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Settings\Traits\SettingsRouterAwareTrait;

class MuchAmazingService
{
    use SettingsRouterAwareTrait;

    public function doSmth()
    {
        if ($this->settingsRouter->getBool('foo')) {
            // do it
        }

        // just do it
    }
}

Usage

To get settings into your services, you have a few choices:

• SettingsRouter
• Service Tag

SettingsRouter

SettingsRouter is pretty straight-forward. It has one main method, called $settingsRouter->get($settingName, $default = null), which returns a setting of any type. If the setting is missing, default value will be returned. Other getters are aliases for get but with declared return types and appropriate default values.

Method name	Default value	Declared return type
getString	''	string
getBool	false	bool
getInt	0	int
getFloat	0.0	float
getArray	[]	array

Service Tag

If you dont want to inject SettingsRouter or wish for a cleaner service, service tags are here to help. First of all, the service must have a setter, which can be used to inject a setting value. For bool values, the bundle provides the SwitchableTrait, which adds setEnabled and isEnabled methods. Then add a tag on your service with attributes setting for setting name and method for method name. Example:

AppBundle\Service\AmazingService:
    tags:
        - { name: settings_manager.setting_aware, setting: foo, method: setEnabled }

Models

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Model\SettingModel

Base setting model.

Property	Type	Description
$name	string	Setting name
$description	string	Setting descrption
$domain	DomainModel	Domain model
$tags	Collection[Tag]	Collection of tags
$type	Enum[Type]	Determines setting value type
$data	array	Holds actual value for setting
$providerName	string	Internal field to know from which provider this setting is

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Model\DomainModel

Domain is like a group for settings. Setting cannot exist without domain. The default is named default, which is also always enabled. Domain can hold only one setting with the same name. Settings with the same names must be in different domains. When a setting is requested, the one from a higher priority domain will be returned.

Property	Type	Description
$name	string	Domain name
$priority	int (default: 0)	Domain priority
$enabled	bool (default: false)	Is domain enabled indication
$readOnly	bool (default: false)	is domain only readable indication

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Model\Type

Enum which holds supported types for setting. Values:

• STRING
• BOOL
• INT
• FLOAT
• YAML
• CHOICE

Setting providers

Settings can be pulled from multiple sources. Currently, the bundle comes with 4 settings providers. They can be configured and prioritized. If a setting with the same name will come from >1 providers, setting from provider with higher priority will override settings from lower priority providers.

Settings can be easily mutated in providers using user interface.

Settings providers:

• Simple
• DoctrineORM
• Cookie
• AWS SSM

And additional 2 decorating providers:

• Phpredis
• Predis

Simple settings provider

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\SimpleSettingsProvider

This is a provider, which only holds settings collections. Currently, it's being used to hold settings from configuration, but many more can be configured.

To configure additional simple providers, factory is provided because provider can only accept already denormalized objects.

Configuration example:

setting_provider_factory.foo:
    class: Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\Factory\SimpleSettingsProviderFactory
    arguments:
        $serializer: '@settings_manager.serializer'
        $normalizedData:
            -
                - name: foo
                  description: 'foo desc'
                  type: bool
                  domain: { name: default } 
                  data: { value: false }
                  tags: [{ name: 'super_switch' }]
    tags:
        - { name: settings_manager.provider_factory, provider: foo, priority: 10 }

DoctrineORM settings provider

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\DoctrineOrmSettingsProvider

This is a provider which reads and saves settings using EntityManagerInterface.

Required libraries:

• doctrine/orm
• acelaya/doctrine-enum-type

I am guessing you already have it 😮
composer require doctrine/orm acelaya/doctrine-enum-type

Configuration example:

1. Doctrine configuration

# Symfony3, app/config/config.yml
# Symfony4, config/packages/doctrine.yaml
doctrine:
    orm:
        mappings:
            HarmonySettingsManagerBundle:
                type: yml
                is_bundle: true
                dir: "Resources/config/doctrine"
                alias: HarmonySettingsManagerBundle
                prefix: Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle

2. Create setting entity

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Model\SettingModel;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity()
 * @ORM\Table(name="setting")
 */
class Setting extends SettingModel
{
    /**
     * @var int
     *
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     */
    protected $id;
}

3. Update your doctrine schema.

4. Register settings provider:

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\DoctrineOrmSettingsProvider:
    arguments:
        $entityManager: '@doctrine.orm.default_entity_manager'
        $settingsEntityClass: 'App\Entity\Setting'
    tags:
        - { name: settings_manager.provider, provider: orm, priority: 20 }

Cookie settings provider

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\CookieSettingsProvider

This is a provider, which only enables existing settings by using a cookie. Cookies are encoded, so that they could not be randomly enabled by users.

Required libraries:

• paragonie/paseto

composer require paragonie/paseto

Paseto is used to encrypt cookies.

Configuration example:

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\CookieSettingsProvider:
    arguments:
        $serializer: '@settings_manager.serializer'
    tags:
        - { name: settings_manager.provider, provider: cookie, priority: 30 }
        - { name: kernel.event_subscriber }

Asymmetric Cookie settings provider

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\AsymmetricCookieSettingsProvider

This is a provider, which only enables existing settings by using a cookie. Cookies are encoded with asymmetric private and public keys, so that they could not be randomly enabled by users.

Required libraries:

• paragonie/paseto

composer require paragonie/paseto

Paseto is used to encrypt cookies.

Configuration example:

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\AsymmetricCookieSettingsProvider:
    arguments:
        $serializer: '@settings_manager.serializer'
    tags:
        - { name: settings_manager.provider, provider: asymmetric_cookie, priority: 40 }
        - { name: kernel.event_subscriber }

AWS SSM settings provider

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\AwsSsmSettingsProvider

This is a provider, which is used only for reading and updating existing ssm parameters as settings.

Required libraries:

• aws/aws-sdk-php

composer require aws/aws-sdk-php

Configuration example:

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\AwsSsmSettingsProvider:
    arguments:
        - '@Aws\Ssm\SsmClient'
        - '@settings_manager.serializer'
        - ['amazing_parameter_name']
    tags:
        - { name: settings_manager.provider, provider: aws_ssm }

Phpredis decorating settings provider

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\DecoratingRedisSettingsProvider

This provider is used to cache other settings providers like DoctrineORM or AWS SSM. It uses Redis client, not doctrine/cache providers or symfony/cache adapters because we want to take advantage of redis data structures for simplier invalidation process.

Required extensions:

• phpredis

pecl install redis-3.1.6

Configuration example:

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\DecoratingRedisSettingsProvider:
    decorates: 'Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\DoctrineOrmSettingsProvider'
    arguments:
        $decoratingProvider: 'Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\DecoratingRedisSettingsProvider.inner'
        $redis: '@settings.cache.redis' # you need to register your own \Redis client in container
        $serializer: '@settings_manager.serializer'

Predis decorating settings provider

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Provider\DecoratingPredisSettingsProvider

Same as phpredis decorating settings provider It just replaces the phpredis extension with predis.

Required libraries:

• predis/predis

composer require predis/predis

Configuration reference

harmony_settings_manager:
    settings:
        -
            name: foo
            description: 'foo desc'
            domain: default # Used for grouping settings.
            type: bool
            data: false
            tags: [super_switch]
    profiler:
        enabled: false
    logger:
        enabled: false
        service_id: null # Psr\Log\LoggerInterface service id
    settings_files:
        # - '%kernel.root_dir%/config/extra_settings.yml'

User interface

User interface can be used to change setting values, enable or disable domains.

1. Bundled user interface requires knp-menu-bundle, jsrouting-bundle.

   composer require knplabs/knp-menu-bundle friendsofsymfony/jsrouting-bundle

2. Include routing file.

# Symfony3, app/config/routing.yml 
# Symfony4, config/routes/settings_manager.yaml

settings_manager:
    resource: '@HarmonySettingsManagerBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml'
    prefix: /settings

That's it. Now go to the /settings path and you will see the settings user interface.

Twig

The Twig extension is also added to get settings in your twig templates. Just like in SettingsRouter, first argument is the setting name and the second sets default value.

{{ setting_get('foo', false) }}

Controller

Harmony\Bundle\SettingsManagerBundle\Controller\Traits\SettingsControllerTrait

Adds a method to deny access, unless a setting is enabled. It's using SettingsRouter, which, again, will be injected by autowire.

public function indexAction(): Response
{
    $this->denyUnlessEnabled('index_page');
    ...
}

Contribution

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