User:Mainframe98/Services

This page describes thing related to services in MediaWiki. See also: Dependency Injection.

General service types

MediaWiki has a few common service types. This section describes them and identifies for which purpose they can be used.

Store

This is service can, as its name implies, store and retrieve things.

Factory

There are two kinds of factories, both of which may be used within the same class:

Make

Create an object if it does not exist yet and return the same object when provided with the same parameters.

New

Create a new object every time the method is invoked.

Lookup

This service provides information about a given thing, as an addition to the object. It does not create objects itself unless the object is auxiliary.

Manager

This service manages things. It can optionally retrieve the things too.

Repository

This service is a read-only storage for looking up things. The things are often predefined elsewhere and do not change during runtime.