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Mastering Symfony

You're reading from   Mastering Symfony Orchestrate the designing, development, testing, and deployment of web applications with Symfony

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784390310
Length 290 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Installing and Configuring Symfony FREE CHAPTER 2. The Request and Response Life Cycle 3. Setting Up the Environment 4. Using Behavior-Driven Development in Symfony 5. Business Logic 6. Dashboard and Security 7. The Presentation Layer 8. Project Review 9. Services and Service Containers 10. Custom User Commands 11. More about Dev, Test and Prod Environments 12. Caching in Symfony Index

Adding interactivity to commands


If we run our command without any input, we will get a RuntimeException error:

$ bin/console mava:task:create
  [RuntimeException]     
  Not enough arguments.  

However, we have already seen commands that don't need initial inputs to fulfill their purpose. In Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Symfony, for example, we simply called the following command to generate a whole bundle structure:

$ bin/console generate:bundle

It wasn't necessary to provide any inputs and yet, along the way, it communicated with us and told us what is needed for the next step to generate the bundle. This is a really nice feature. Let's add it to our command.

Console helpers

Console helpers are services that we can use to add interactivity to our commands. We are going to use the Question helper here. First, we need to add the required classes for different types of questions. So open your command class and add the following lines to it:

File source: // AppBundle/Command/TaskCommand...

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