AliasFactory

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AliasFactory

A factory that resolves an alias to another service within a PSR-11 container.

This factory MUST be used when a service should act as an alias for another service already registered in the container.

When invoked, it SHALL delegate resolution to the aliased service identifier.

• Full name: \FastForward\Container\Factory\AliasFactory
• This class is marked as final and can't be subclassed
• This class implements: \FastForward\Container\Factory\FactoryInterface
• This class is a Final class

Methods

__construct

Constructs the AliasFactory with the target service identifier.

public __construct(string $alias): mixed

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
$alias	string	the identifier of the service to which this factory points

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__invoke

Resolves the aliased service from the container.

public __invoke(\Psr\Container\ContainerInterface $container): mixed

This method MUST return the same instance as if the original alias identifier were used directly with the container.

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
$container	\Psr\Container\ContainerInterface	the container instance to resolve the alias from

Return Value:

the resolved service instance

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get

Retrieves or creates a cached AliasFactory for a given alias.

public static get(string $alias): self

This static method SHOULD be used to avoid instantiating multiple factories for the same alias unnecessarily. The same instance will be reused for each alias.

• This method is static.

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
$alias	string	the identifier to create or retrieve the factory for

Return Value:

an AliasFactory instance associated with the provided alias

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Automatically generated on 2025-07-03