Joachim Noreiko Suggests a Better Dependency Injection Management Route

A recent blog post by Joachim Noreiko shares his discovery of a novel approach to dealing with dependency injection. The author begins by citing his regular approach while writing a class with dependency injection. However, this experience only resulted in repeatedly missing the services that needed to be added. Even in that case, the Module Builder’s capability of saving the configuration helped him edit and add more services.

According to the blog, the author realized that there was a different approach to this problem when a question was asked at Drupal Drinks. In this way, updating your code would be reduced to a simple find-and-replace.

Whenever you need a service, Joachim suggests writing  the code :

$service_entityTypeManager = \Drupal::service('entity_type.manager');

$stuff = $service_entityTypeManager->doSomething();

Then, only two find and replace operations are the only things needed to convert it to DI. The article also suggests using a regular expression like '(?<=::service..)[\w.]+' To find all the services needed for the class's dependency injection.