abstract class FormBase in Drupal 8

Provides a base class for forms.

This class exists as a mid-point between dependency injection through ContainerInjectionInterface, and a less-structured use of traits which default to using the \Drupal accessor for service discovery.

To properly inject services, override create() and use the setters provided by the traits to inject the needed services.

public static function create($container) {
  $form = new static();
  // In this example we only need string translation so we use the
  // setStringTranslation() method provided by StringTranslationTrait.
  $form->setStringTranslation($container->get('string_translation'));
  return $form;
}

Alternately, do not use FormBase. A class can implement FormInterface, use the traits it needs, and inject services from the container as required.

Hierarchy

• class \Drupal\Core\Form\FormBase implements ContainerInjectionInterface, FormInterface uses DependencySerializationTrait, LoggerChannelTrait, MessengerTrait, LinkGeneratorTrait, RedirectDestinationTrait, UrlGeneratorTrait, StringTranslationTrait

See also

\Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\ContainerInjectionInterface

Related topics

Form generation

Describes how to generate and manipulate forms and process form submissions.

144 files declare their use of FormBase

ActionAdminManageForm.php in core/modules/action/src/Form/ActionAdminManageForm.php

AddFormBase.php in core/modules/media_library/src/Form/AddFormBase.php

AjaxCssForm.php in core/modules/ckeditor/tests/modules/src/Form/AjaxCssForm.php

AjaxFormsTestAjaxElementsForm.php in core/modules/system/tests/modules/ajax_forms_test/src/Form/AjaxFormsTestAjaxElementsForm.php

AjaxFormsTestCommandsForm.php in core/modules/system/tests/modules/ajax_forms_test/src/Form/AjaxFormsTestCommandsForm.php

... See full list

File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Form/FormBase.php, line 46

Namespace

Drupal\Core\Form

abstract class FormBase implements FormInterface, ContainerInjectionInterface {
  use DependencySerializationTrait;
  use LinkGeneratorTrait;
  use LoggerChannelTrait;
  use MessengerTrait;
  use RedirectDestinationTrait;
  use StringTranslationTrait;
  use UrlGeneratorTrait;

  /**
   * The request stack.
   *
   * @var \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RequestStack
   */
  protected $requestStack;

  /**
   * The config factory.
   *
   * Subclasses should use the self::config() method, which may be overridden to
   * address specific needs when loading config, rather than this property
   * directly. See \Drupal\Core\Form\ConfigFormBase::config() for an example of
   * this.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\Core\Config\ConfigFactoryInterface
   */
  protected $configFactory;

  /**
   * The route match.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\Core\Routing\RouteMatchInterface
   */
  protected $routeMatch;

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public static function create(ContainerInterface $container) {
    return new static();
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function validateForm(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {

    // Validation is optional.
  }

  /**
   * Retrieves a configuration object.
   *
   * This is the main entry point to the configuration API. Calling
   * @code $this->config('book.admin') @endcode will return a configuration
   * object in which the book module can store its administrative settings.
   *
   * @param string $name
   *   The name of the configuration object to retrieve. The name corresponds to
   *   a configuration file. For @code \Drupal::config('book.admin') @endcode,
   *   the config object returned will contain the contents of book.admin
   *   configuration file.
   *
   * @return \Drupal\Core\Config\ImmutableConfig
   *   A configuration object.
   */
  protected function config($name) {
    return $this
      ->configFactory()
      ->get($name);
  }

  /**
   * Gets the config factory for this form.
   *
   * When accessing configuration values, use $this->config(). Only use this
   * when the config factory needs to be manipulated directly.
   *
   * @return \Drupal\Core\Config\ConfigFactoryInterface
   */
  protected function configFactory() {
    if (!$this->configFactory) {
      $this->configFactory = $this
        ->container()
        ->get('config.factory');
    }
    return $this->configFactory;
  }

  /**
   * Sets the config factory for this form.
   *
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Config\ConfigFactoryInterface $config_factory
   *   The config factory.
   *
   * @return $this
   */
  public function setConfigFactory(ConfigFactoryInterface $config_factory) {
    $this->configFactory = $config_factory;
    return $this;
  }

  /**
   * Resets the configuration factory.
   */
  public function resetConfigFactory() {
    $this->configFactory = NULL;
  }

  /**
   * Gets the request object.
   *
   * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request
   *   The request object.
   */
  protected function getRequest() {
    if (!$this->requestStack) {
      $this->requestStack = \Drupal::service('request_stack');
    }
    return $this->requestStack
      ->getCurrentRequest();
  }

  /**
   * Gets the route match.
   *
   * @return \Drupal\Core\Routing\RouteMatchInterface
   */
  protected function getRouteMatch() {
    if (!$this->routeMatch) {
      $this->routeMatch = \Drupal::routeMatch();
    }
    return $this->routeMatch;
  }

  /**
   * Sets the request stack object to use.
   *
   * @param \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RequestStack $request_stack
   *   The request stack object.
   *
   * @return $this
   */
  public function setRequestStack(RequestStack $request_stack) {
    $this->requestStack = $request_stack;
    return $this;
  }

  /**
   * Gets the current user.
   *
   * @return \Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface
   *   The current user.
   */
  protected function currentUser() {
    return \Drupal::currentUser();
  }

  /**
   * Returns a redirect response object for the specified route.
   *
   * @param string $route_name
   *   The name of the route to which to redirect.
   * @param array $route_parameters
   *   (optional) Parameters for the route.
   * @param array $options
   *   (optional) An associative array of additional options.
   * @param int $status
   *   (optional) The HTTP redirect status code for the redirect. The default is
   *   302 Found.
   *
   * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse
   *   A redirect response object that may be returned by the controller.
   */
  protected function redirect($route_name, array $route_parameters = [], array $options = [], $status = 302) {
    $options['absolute'] = TRUE;
    return new RedirectResponse(Url::fromRoute($route_name, $route_parameters, $options)
      ->toString(), $status);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the service container.
   *
   * This method is marked private to prevent sub-classes from retrieving
   * services from the container through it. Instead,
   * \Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\ContainerInjectionInterface should be used
   * for injecting services.
   *
   * @return \Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface
   *   The service container.
   */
  private function container() {
    return \Drupal::getContainer();
  }

  /**
   * Gets the logger for a specific channel.
   *
   * This method exists for backward-compatibility between FormBase and
   * LoggerChannelTrait. Use LoggerChannelTrait::getLogger() instead.
   *
   * @param string $channel
   *   The name of the channel. Can be any string, but the general practice is
   *   to use the name of the subsystem calling this.
   *
   * @return \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface
   *   The logger for the given channel.
   */
  protected function logger($channel) {
    return $this
      ->getLogger($channel);
  }

}

Members

Name	Modifiers	Type	Description	Overrides
DependencySerializationTrait::$_entityStorages	protected	property	An array of entity type IDs keyed by the property name of their storages.
DependencySerializationTrait::$_serviceIds	protected	property	An array of service IDs keyed by property name used for serialization.
DependencySerializationTrait::__sleep	public	function		1
DependencySerializationTrait::__wakeup	public	function		2
FormBase::$configFactory	protected	property	The config factory.	1
FormBase::$requestStack	protected	property	The request stack.	1
FormBase::$routeMatch	protected	property	The route match.
FormBase::config	protected	function	Retrieves a configuration object.
FormBase::configFactory	protected	function	Gets the config factory for this form.	1
FormBase::container	private	function	Returns the service container.
FormBase::create	public static	function	Instantiates a new instance of this class. Overrides ContainerInjectionInterface::create	87
FormBase::currentUser	protected	function	Gets the current user.
FormBase::getRequest	protected	function	Gets the request object.
FormBase::getRouteMatch	protected	function	Gets the route match.
FormBase::logger	protected	function	Gets the logger for a specific channel.
FormBase::redirect	protected	function	Returns a redirect response object for the specified route. Overrides UrlGeneratorTrait::redirect
FormBase::resetConfigFactory	public	function	Resets the configuration factory.
FormBase::setConfigFactory	public	function	Sets the config factory for this form.
FormBase::setRequestStack	public	function	Sets the request stack object to use.
FormBase::validateForm	public	function	Form validation handler. Overrides FormInterface::validateForm	62
FormInterface::buildForm	public	function	Form constructor.	179
FormInterface::getFormId	public	function	Returns a unique string identifying the form.	236
FormInterface::submitForm	public	function	Form submission handler.	192
LinkGeneratorTrait::$linkGenerator	protected	property	The link generator.	1
LinkGeneratorTrait::getLinkGenerator Deprecated	protected	function	Returns the link generator.
LinkGeneratorTrait::l Deprecated	protected	function	Renders a link to a route given a route name and its parameters.
LinkGeneratorTrait::setLinkGenerator Deprecated	public	function	Sets the link generator service.
LoggerChannelTrait::$loggerFactory	protected	property	The logger channel factory service.
LoggerChannelTrait::getLogger	protected	function	Gets the logger for a specific channel.
LoggerChannelTrait::setLoggerFactory	public	function	Injects the logger channel factory.
MessengerTrait::$messenger	protected	property	The messenger.	29
MessengerTrait::messenger	public	function	Gets the messenger.	29
MessengerTrait::setMessenger	public	function	Sets the messenger.
RedirectDestinationTrait::$redirectDestination	protected	property	The redirect destination service.	1
RedirectDestinationTrait::getDestinationArray	protected	function	Prepares a 'destination' URL query parameter for use with \Drupal\Core\Url.
RedirectDestinationTrait::getRedirectDestination	protected	function	Returns the redirect destination service.
RedirectDestinationTrait::setRedirectDestination	public	function	Sets the redirect destination service.
StringTranslationTrait::$stringTranslation	protected	property	The string translation service.	1
StringTranslationTrait::formatPlural	protected	function	Formats a string containing a count of items.
StringTranslationTrait::getNumberOfPlurals	protected	function	Returns the number of plurals supported by a given language.
StringTranslationTrait::getStringTranslation	protected	function	Gets the string translation service.
StringTranslationTrait::setStringTranslation	public	function	Sets the string translation service to use.	2
StringTranslationTrait::t	protected	function	Translates a string to the current language or to a given language.
UrlGeneratorTrait::$urlGenerator	protected	property	The url generator.
UrlGeneratorTrait::getUrlGenerator Deprecated	protected	function	Returns the URL generator service.
UrlGeneratorTrait::setUrlGenerator Deprecated	public	function	Sets the URL generator service.
UrlGeneratorTrait::url Deprecated	protected	function	Generates a URL or path for a specific route based on the given parameters.