What is the reason to create a new attribute instead of makingmethod optional?

What is the reason to create a new attribute instead of making method optional?

Because method is already optional and it currently means__invoke, so that would be confusing.
A new attribute makes it explicit that some convention is used also IMHO (inferring the name of the method from the name of the parameter)

Really subjective point of view here, I definitely see an improvement of "instant understanding of what's being done". I think having this "alias attribute" helps to get what's happening at first sight, where the existing notation needs a bit of reflection before getting it.

It feels more human friendly to me

What are the benefits aboutAutowireMethodOf andAutowireCallable, versus directly injectingCommentRepository?

Only one con IMHO, if you refactor the method name via IDE this code breaks, I know it’s the same problem for the long attribute version. Not sure I would use it, because if you have no tests and even with static analysis this bug can go to prod. Sounds like a footgun but indeed nice DX

@Kocal my repositories are final so I cannot mock them, so I would need an interface. This way you don’t need an interface, can have a final class and you can easily test it.

versus directly injecting CommentRepository

think about testing a service that has CommentRepository as a dependency: you cannot test it without having a database or without heavy mocking. Query functions are just trivial to replace instead.

Hum alright, I can understand the issue, but then doesn't it make sense to create by yourself a invokable class that you can easily mock?

IINW you lose the autocompletion/static analysis by usingAutowireMethodOf/AutowireCallable no?

doesn't it make sense to create by yourself a invokable class that you can easily mock

It's like invokable controllers vs action methods: everyone their preferences 🤷 Mine is this attribute because of the low verbosity: just write a repository, and still get decoupling without creating a myriad of class boilerplate.

you lose the autocompletion/static analysis by using AutowireMethodOf/AutowireCallable no?

@param Closure(Conference, int): Paginator $getCommentPaginator to the rescue in my example (or inline@var Paginator $result)). The attribute doesn't introduce this concern also since the current alternative works the same.

Only one con IMHO, if you refactor the method name via IDE this code breaks

true with the current tooling, but this is fixable since the tools can very well be taught about the attribute. On this topic also the current situation is similar and the proposed attribute doesn't bring anything new.

Alright thanks for the explanations :)

You mentionned "query" but -naive question- would this work with setters / persisters too ?

Could this work ?

publicfunction__invoke(    #[AutowireMethodOf(CommentRepository::class)]\Closure$saveComment,    #[MapRequestPayload]Comment$comment,) {$saveComment($comment);}

@smnandre yes of course

PR updated with better error handling and a test case.

FTR, if I define this interface:

interface GetCommentPaginatorInterface{publicfunction__invoke(Conference$conference,int$page):Paginator;}

Then I can also do native types (vs@param + closure) without doing anything else:

        #[AutowireMethodOf(CommentRepository::class)]        GetCommentPaginatorInterface$getCommentPaginator,