How to pass faker data result to a custom function

Question

I'm using PhoneNumberBundle for validates phone number on my application. I'm using also NelmioAliceBundle together with AliceFixtureBundle. Having that as start point I'm writing a fixture for a entity that has a PhoneNumberBundle assert for validate the phone number. Here is a snippet of that file:

/**
 * @AssertPhoneNumber(defaultRegion="VE")
 * @ORM\Column(name="phone", type="phone_number", length=11)
 */
protected $phone;

I don't know how to use external libraries on the fixture itself so the only solution I see if to write my own faker and return the well formated number phone and pass back to the fixture. Then I did this:

TananeFakerProvider.php

class TananeFakerProvider {

    public function formatPhoneNumber($fakePhoneNumber)
    {
        return $this->container->get('libphonenumber.phone_number_util')->parse($fakePhoneNumber);
    }

}

services.yml

services:
    tanane.faker.provider:
        class: CommonBundle\Tools\TananeFakerProvider
        arguments: ["@service_container"]
        tags:
            -  { name: h4cc_alice_fixtures.provider }

And finally Orders.yml (the fixture):

FrontendBundle\Entity\Orders:
    Orders{1..50}:
        nickname: <text(15)>
        # trying to pass the fake number back to the custom faker
        phone: <formatPhoneNumber(phoneNumber())>
        email: <companyEmail()>
        fiscal_address: <address()>
        shipping_address: <address()>
        shipping_from: <randomElement(array('MRW','DOMESA', 'ZOOM'))>
        payment_type: @PaymentType*
        order_amount: <randomFloat(2)>
        bank: @Bank*
        transaction: <randomNumber()>
        comments: <sentence(15)>
        secure: <boolean(35)>
        person: <randomElement(array(@Natural*, @Legal*))> 
        status: @OrderStatus*

But I got this error:

[Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\ContextErrorException] Notice: Use of undefined constant phoneNumber - assumed 'phoneNumber' in /var/www/html/vendor/nelmio/alice/src/Nelmio/Alice/Loader/Base.php(630) : eval()'d code line 1

So I'm passing the value in the wrong way, could any give me some help on this? Or maybe give me another idea in how to achieve this?

Answer 1

As an alternative you can pass a Faker Provider object as a second parameter when instantiating a Nelmio/Alice/Fixtures/Loader class.

1.- Create a Provider Class

class MyCustomFakeProvider
{
    public function tell_me_something()
    {
        return 'something';
    }
}

2.-

use Nelmio\Alice\Fixtures\Loader;

use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\AbstractFixture;
use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\OrderedFixtureInterface;

class ExampleDataLoader extends AbstractFixture implements OrderedFixtureInterface
{
    public function loadMyDataFixtures() {       

        $myCustomFakeProvider = new MyCustomFakeProvider();
        $loader = new Loader('es_ES', $myCustomFakeProvider);
        $objects = $loader->load(__DIR__ . '/example.yml');

        $persister = new \Nelmio\Alice\Persister\Doctrine($manager);
        $persister->persist($objects);

3.- Finally create a example.yml file (at the same level than the Loader class in this case) with some data and a custom call to tell_me_something()

AppBundle\Entity\Example:
    examples_1{1..101}:
    title: <tell_me_something()> # MY CUSTOM METHOD
    description: <sentence()>

Answer 2

(Settled on github, but for posterity here is a copy)

You can use the following in Alice 1.x:

FrontendBundle\Entity\Orders:
    Orders{1..50}:
        nickname: <text(15)>
        # trying to pass the fake number back to the custom faker
        phone: <formatPhoneNumber($this->fake('phoneNumber'))>

And this in the 2.x line:

FrontendBundle\Entity\Orders:
    Orders{1..50}:
        nickname: <text(15)>
        # trying to pass the fake number back to the custom faker
        phone: <formatPhoneNumber($fake('phoneNumber'))>