Making a service out of doctrine:fixtures:load command

[devhelp]

Would be great to have the command as service or to extract pure service class out of it in order to have it available in the container

[devhelp]

One use case could be to use it in Symfony's WebTestCase to load fixtures for tests. I could try to create a service, how do you think, would it be useful ?

[lavoiesl]

+1

[mvmaasakkers]

I've created a WIP PR: #248

Is this the general idea?

[vovan47]

@mvmaasakkers I'd like to use it, is that project maintained? maybe we can alert authors somehow?

[alcaeus]

It is - I've just had less time to work on this than I'd hoped. I'll take care of open issues/PRs over the coming weeks - please stay tuned.

[alcaeus]

I've taken a look, and we will most likely not be able to fix this in 3.x. Reason is that the underlying classes from the Doctrine data-fixtures library don't support dynamically injecting an entity manager. Since the entity manager can be passed to the command via an argument, we need to be able to inject the entity manager at runtime, which currently isn't possible.

I'm hoping to tackle this in the library soon, but it won't be in the next few weeks, since all of the executors and purgers need updating.