Laravel 4 One interface with multiple implementations at same time

interface, laravel, php

Solution

This question took for me long time to solve it. After Laravel 5.0 is out i'm posting solution that i have found using Contextual binding

Consider this example, when one controller needs one interface with multiple implementations.

<?php

// We are creating one abstract controller with one logic
abstract class AbstractSearchController
{
    protected $searchService;

    public function __construct(SearchServiceInterface $searchService)
    {
        $this->searchService = $searchService;
    }

    public function getResult($keyword)
    {
        return $this->searchService->getItems($keyword);
    }
}

// In routes.php file we can point url like: http://example.com/search/posts/?keyword=my-search-keyword to use 
// something like this: Route::resource('search/posts', 'PostSearchController', ['only' => ['index']]);
class PostSearchController extends AbstractSearchController
{
    // No code here as this controller only is needed so that we can point Specific implementation to it
}

// In routes.php file we can point url like: http://example.com/search/members/?keyword=my-search-keyword to use 
// something like this: Route::resource('search/members', 'MemberSearchController', ['only' => ['index']]);
class MemberSearchController extends AbstractSearchController
{
    //
}

// Our main interface that will have multiple implementations at same time
interface SearchServiceInterface
{
    public function getItems($keyword);
}

// Our first implementation of interface
class MemberSearchRepo implements SearchServiceInterface
{
    public function getItems($keyword)
    {
        // Get members by keyword
    }
}

// Our second implementation of interface
class PostSearchRepo implements SearchServiceInterface
{
    public function getItems($keyword)
    {
        // Get posts by keyword
    }
}

// When PostsSearchController needs Search Logic point IoC to give our first implementation
$this->app->when('PostSearchController')->needs('SearchServiceInterface')->give('PostSearchRepo');

// When MemberSearchController needs Search Logic point IoC to give our seconds implementation
$this->app->when('MemberSearchController')->needs('SearchServiceInterface')->give('MemberSearchRepo');

I hope this extended example will help people to understand how to implement feature that I needed for Laravel 4.x with abillities that Laravel 5 provides

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