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Deep Dive · Magento 2 Dependency Injection

Injectable vs. Non-Injectable:
The underestimated boundary in Magento

Why Models and DataObjects must never be injected into constructors, how Factories solve this, and exactly what the DI container classifies as "injectable".

12 min read

Magento 2.4.8 · PHP 8.4

Magento DI Concepts

Contents

1. 1. The boundary: what's allowed in constructors?
2. 2. Injectable objects: services and managers
3. 3. Non-injectable objects: models and DataObjects
4. 4. Why models must not be injected
5. 5. Factory as the solution: auto-generated factories
6. 6. Custom factories and factory methods
7. 7. Shared vs. non-shared in di.xml
8. 8. Proxy: lazy loading for expensive injectable objects
9. 9. PHPStan: finding non-injectable violations
10. 10. Conclusion: the golden rule of DI

One of the most common causes of bugs in Magento modules: a Model gets injected directly into a constructor. This is subtly wrong and causes unexpected side effects,

An anti-join finds every row of a table that has no matching row in a second table, a semi-join finds every row that has at least one matching row, without pulling that table's columns into the result. Both patterns solve a common problem, finding customers with no order or products with at least one review, but only one of the common implementations is truly robust with NULL values and performance.