Symfony 2: Creating a service from a Repository

Question

I'm learning Symfony and I've been trying to create a service, using a repository. I've created my repositories and entities from generate:entity, so they should be fine.

So far what I got in my services.yml is:

parameters:
    mytest.entity: TestTestBundle:Brand
    mytest.class:  TestTestBundleEntityBrand
    default_repository.class: DoctrineORMEntityRepository

services:
     myservice:
          class: %default_repository.class%
          factory-service: doctrine.orm.default_entity_manager
          factory-method: getRepository
          arguments:
            - %mytest.entity%

But when I try to call the service, I get this error:

Catchable Fatal Error: Argument 2 passed to DoctrineORMEntityRepository::__construct() must be an instance of DoctrineORMMappingClassMetadata, none given, called in 

Then I tried to create the service just using an entity. My services.yml would look like:

services:
     myservice:
          class: %mytest.class%
          factory-service: doctrine.orm.default_entity_manager
          factory-method: getRepository
          arguments:
            - %mytest.entity%

But for this, I get:

Error: Call to undefined method 
                TestTestBundleEntityBrand::findAll

Does anybody know what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

DEPRECATION WARNING: No more factory_service and factory_method. This is how you should do it since Symfony 2.6 (for Symfony 3.3+ check below):

parameters:
    entity.my_entity: "AppBundle:MyEntity"

services:
    my_entity_repository:
        class: AppBundleRepositoryMyEntityRepository
        factory: ["@doctrine", getRepository]
        arguments:
            - %entity.my_entity%

The new setFactory() method was introduced in Symfony 2.6. Refer to older versions for the syntax for factories prior to 2.6.

http://symfony.com/doc/2.7/service_container/factories.html

EDIT: Looks like they keep changing this, so since Symfony 3.3 there's a new syntax:

# app/config/services.yml
services:
    # ...

    AppBundleEmailNewsletterManager:
        # call the static method
        factory: ['AppBundleEmailNewsletterManagerStaticFactory', createNewsletterManager]

Check it out: http://symfony.com/doc/3.3/service_container/factories.html