Usage

Mondator uses config classes and extensions to generate the classes. The config classes have the information about themselves, and the extensions process those data and indicate which classes have to be generated, where and how they must be.

Mondator is extremely flexible, because the classes that are generated from the config classes depend on the extensions that you have assigned them.

Mandango uses an extension of Mondator to generate the classes of documents, repositories and queries.

A simple example

We are going to do a simple example with Mondator using Mandango, this way you will see step by step what you will have to do to use it and you will understand how it works.

Create a Mondator

use Mandango\Mondator\Mondator;

$mondator = new Mondator();

Assign the Config Classes

The config classes contain the information of the classes.:

$mondator->setConfigClasses(array(
    'Model\Article' => array(
        'fields' => array(
            'title'   => 'string',
            'content' => 'string',
        ),
    ),
));

Tip

You can use a language like YAML to work easily with the config classes.

Assign the extensions

The extensions are the ones ordered to process the config classes and generate class definitions and outputs. The definitions indicate which classes will be generated, and the outputs where they will be generated.

The order in which the extensions are assigned is the order in which they are processed, so it is very important that it is the right order.

The extensions also accept options to be able to customize its operation:

$mondator->setExtensions(array(
    new Mandango\Extension\Core(array(
        'metadata_factory_class'  => 'Model\Mapping\MetadataFactory',
        'metadata_factory_output' => $modelDir.'/Mapping',
        'default_output'          => $modelDir,
    )),
));

Note

Adding more extensions you will be able to customize the generated classes as much as you want, or event generate more classes.

Process

Once you have assigned the config classes and extensions, you only have to process the mondator to generate the files of each classes:

$mondator->process();

A full example

Let’s see a full example, which you can use to start using Mandango:

$mandangoDir = '/path/to/mandango';
$modelDir  = '/path/to/Model';

// classes loader
require_once($mandangoDir.'/vendor/symfony/src/Symony/Component/ClassLoader/UniversalClassLoader.php');

use Symfony\Component\ClassLoader\UniversalClassLoader;

$loader = new UniversalClassLoader();
$loader->registerNamespaces(array(
    'Mandango' => $mandangoDir.'/src/',
    'Mondator' => $mandangoDir.'/vendor/mondator/src',
    'Model'    => dirname($modelDir),
));
$loader->register();

// start Mondator
use Mandango\Mondator\Mondator;

$mondator = new Mondator();

// assign the config classes
$mondator->setConfigClasses(array(
    'Model\Article' => array(
        'fields' => array(
            'title'   => 'string',
            'content' => 'string',
        ),
    ),
));

// assign extensions
$mondator->setExtensions(array(
    new Mandango\Extension\Core(array(
        'metadata_class' => 'Model\Mapping\Metadata',
        'metadata_output' => $modelDir.'/Mapping',
        'default_output' => $modelDir,
    )),
));

// process
$mondator->process();

If you take a look at the generated files, you will see that there are empty classes that you can customize, and others Base that you must not touch because they are overwritten every time the mondator is processed.