Question

I’m working with SonataAdminBundle and SonataUserBundle.

SonataUserBundle registers a service sonata.user.admin.group which is automatically detected by SonataAdminBundle to set links in the admin dashboard to group CRUD operations.

How can I disable sonata.user.admin.group? I’ve been following that recipes in Symfony2 documentation:

• How to Override any Part of a Bundle – Services and Configuration

• Compiling the Container – Creating a Compiler Pass

• Working with Container Parameters and Definitions

So far, I have the following code in my bundle definition to add a compiler pass:

public function build(ContainerBuilder $container)
{
  parent::build($container);

  $container->addCompilerPass(new CompilerPass());
}

And here it is the compiler pass:

<?php

namespace NS\Service\CompilerPass;

use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Compiler\CompilerPassInterface;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;

class CompilerPass implements CompilerPassInterface
{
    public function process(ContainerBuilder $container)
    {
       $container->removeDefinition('sonata.user.admin.group');
    }
}

I thought that this should work but no. Symfony is throwing an exception telling me that sonata.user.admin.group service does not exist. But it exists, and if I do $container->getDefinition('sonata.user.admin.group') the actual definition is return.

Thanks

Answer 1

Try marking the service as abstract and set its public property to false e.g.

#in any services.yml
services:
    sonata.user.admin.group:
      abstract: true
      public: false
    #...

Addition to completeness:

And add to the CompilerPass:

$container->getDefinition('sonata.user.admin.group')->setSynthetic(true);