Reference

Command Line Tooling

This package ships the vendor binary zend-expressive-swoole. It provides the following commands:

• start to start the server
• stop to stop the server (when run in daemonized mode)
• reload to reload the server (when run in daemonized mode)
• status to determine the server status (running or not running)

You may obtain help for each command using the help meta-command:

$ ./vendor/bin/zend-expressive-swoole help start

The stop, status, and reload commands are sufficiently generic to work regardless of runtime or application, as they work directly with the Swoole process manager. The start command, however, may need customizations if you have customized your application bootstrap.

The start command

The start command will start the web server using the following steps:

• It pulls the Swoole\Http\Server service from the application dependency injection container, and calls set() on it with options denoting the number of workers to run (provided via the --num-workers or -w option), and whether or not to daemonize the server (provided via the --daemonize or -d option).

• It pulls the Zend\Expressive\Application and Zend\Expressive\MiddlewareFactory services from the container.

• It loads the config/pipeline.php and config/routes.php files, invoking their return values with the application, middleware factory, and dependency injection container instances.

• It calls the run() method of the application instance.

These are roughly the steps taken within the application bootstrap (public/index.php) of the Expressive skeleton application.

Writing a custom start command

If your application needs alternate bootstrapping (e.g., if you have modified the public/index.php, or if you are using this package with a different middleware runtime), we recommend writing a custom start command.

As an example, let's say you have altered your application such that you're defining your routes in multiple files, and instead of:

(require 'config/routes.php')($app, $factory, $container);

you instead have something like:

$handle = opendir('config/routes/');
while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {
    if (false === strrpos($entry, '.php')) {
        continue;
    }
    (require $entry)($app, $factory, $container);
}

You could write a command such as the following:

// In src/App/Command/StartCommand.php:

namespace App\Command;

use Psr\Container\ContainerInterface;
use Swoole\Http\Server as SwooleHttpServer;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
use Zend\Expressive\Application;
use Zend\Expressive\MiddlewareFactory;
use Zend\Expressive\Swoole\Command\StartCommand as BaseStartCommand;
use Zend\Expressive\Swoole\PidManager;

class StartCommand extends BaseStartCommand
{
    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output) : int
    {
        // This functionality is identical to the base start command, and should
        // be copy and pasted to your implementation:
        $this->pidManager = $this->container->get(PidManager::class);
        if ($this->isRunning()) {
            $output->writeln('<error>Server is already running!</error>');
            return 1;
        }

        $server = $this->container->get(SwooleHttpServer::class);
        $server->set([
            'daemonize' => $input->getOption('daemonize'),
            'worker_num' => $input->getOption('num-workers') ?? self::DEFAULT_NUM_WORKERS,
        ]);

        /** @var \Zend\Expressive\Application $app */
        $app = $this->container->get(Application::class);

        /** @var \Zend\Expressive\MiddlewareFactory $factory */
        $factory = $this->container->get(MiddlewareFactory::class);

        // Execute programmatic/declarative middleware pipeline and routing
        // configuration statements
        (require 'config/pipeline.php')($app, $factory, $this->container);

        //
        // This is the new code from above:
        //
        $handle = opendir(getcwd() . '/config/routes/');
        while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {
            if (false === strrpos($entry, '.php')) {
                continue;
            }
            (require $entry)($app, $factory, $container);
        }

        // And now we return to the original code:

        // Run the application
        $app->run();

        return 0;
    }
}

You will also need to write a factory for the class:

// In src/App/Command/StartCommandFactory.php:

namespace App\Command;

use Psr\Container\ContainerInterface;

class StartCommandFactory
{
    public function __invoke(ContainerInterface $container) : StartCommand
    {
        return new StartCommand($container);
    }
}

If this is all you're changing, you can map this new command to the existing Zend\Expressive\Swoole\Command\StartCommand service within your configuration:

// in config/autoload/dependencies.global.php:

use App\Command\StartCommandFactory;
use Zend\Expressive\Swoole\Command\StartCommand;

return [
    'dependencies' => [
        'factories' => [
            StartCommand::class => StartCommandFactory::class,
        ],
    ],
];

Since the zend-expressive-swoole binary uses your application configuration and container, this will substitute your command for the shipped command!