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WireBox Binder

You can have an optional WireBox configuration binder that can fine-tune the WireBox engine and also where you can create object mappings, and even more model locations by convention. Usually you will find this binder by convention in your config/WireBox.cfc location and it looks like this:
component extends="coldbox.system.ioc.config.Binder"{
function configure(){
// Configure WireBox
wireBox = {
// Scope registration, automatically register a wirebox injector instance on any CF scope
// By default it registeres itself on application scope
scopeRegistration = {
enabled = true,
scope = "application", // server, cluster, session, application
key = "wireBox"
},
// Custom DSL Namespace registrations
customDSL = {
// namespace = "mapping name"
},
// Custom Storage Scopes
customScopes = {
// annotationName = "mapping name"
},
// Package scan locations or model external locations by convention
scanLocations = [],
// Stop Recursions
stopRecursions = [],
// Parent Injector to assign to the configured injector, this must be an object reference
parentInjector = "",
// Register all event listeners here, they are created in the specified order
listeners = [
// { class="", name="", properties={} }
]
};
// Map Bindings below
}
}
Please refer to the full Binder documentation: (http://wirebox.ortusbooks.com/configuration/configuring-wirebox/) for further inspection.

Mappings

By default, all objects that you place in the models folder are available to your application by their name. So if you create a new model object: models/MyService.cfc, you can refer to it as MyService in your application. However, if you create a model object: models/security/SecurityService.cfc it will be available as security.SecurityService. This is great and dandy, but when refactoring comes to play you will have to refactor all references to the dot-notation paths. This is where mappings come into play.
WireBox has several methods for mappings, the easiest of them are the following:
  • map( alias ).to( cfc.path )
  • mapPath( path )
  • mapDirectory( packagePath, include, exclude, influence, filter, namespace )
// map the service with an alias.
map( "SecurityService" ).to( "models.security.SecurityService" );
// map the entire models directory by CFC name as the alias
mapDirectory( "models" );