The Now class and having it injected in usable form

[kdambekalns (Karsten Dambekalns)]

Continuing the discussion from Package splits from Flow:

@bwaidelich

E.g. Now is quite cumbersome to work with in practice… I ended up with a lot of code like this:

/**
 * @Flow\Inject
 * @var Now
 */
protected $now;

// ...

if ($this->now instanceof DependencyProxy) {
	$this->now->_activateDependency();
}
$myModel->setSomeDate($this->now);

I guess the “trick” is simply injecting it non-lazy:

/**
 * @Flow\Inject(lazy=false)
 * @var Now
 */
protected $now;

[bwaidelich (Bastian Waidelich)]

For the record: I was aware of the option to disable lazyloading. But in case of setting some createdAt-timestamp it would mean that the Now object is created unnecessarily every time except for the very first instantiation of the object.
But you’re right, in this case that’s probably not a problem because it’s not a complex object and most probably instantiated anyways sometimes during the request.