Preserving auto-completion abilities with Symfony2 Dependency Injection

It is more involving, but you can still do this with eclipse PDT:

$myThingy = $this->get('some_cool_service');/* @var $myThingy \MyNamespace\CoolService */

UPDATE:The example on this page shows you may also use the other way round with phpStorm:

$myThingy = $this->get('some_cool_service');/* @var \MyNamespace\CoolService $myThingy */

You could define private properties in your controllers

class MyController extends Controller{    /**     * @var \Namespace\To\SomeCoolService;     */    private $my_service;    public function myAction()    {        $this->my_service = $this->get('some_cool_service');        /**         * enjoy your autocompletion :)         */    }}

I use base Controller class for bundle. You need to annotate the return in method. At least that works on Eclipse.

/** * Gets SomeCoolService * * @return \Namespace\To\SomeCoolService */protected function getSomeCoolService(){    return $this->get('some_cool_service');}

I don't like /*var ... */, because it gets too much into code.I don't like private properties, because you can wrongly assume that services are already loaded.