Frustrated by Magento? Then you’ll love
I looks like eBay threw another Magento 2 release over the wall into GitHub today. I’m going to start tagging entries here with a specific dev release tag as well as the generic magento2 tag.
First big change? The object manager we’ve been discussing is a different class. When you want to grab an instance of it, you can use
$object_manager = MagentoAppObjectManager::getInstance();
It’s also worth mentioning that all versions of the object manager’s getInstance method come with the following PHPDoc warning.
* TODO: Temporary solution for serialization, should be removed when Serialization problem is resolved
*
* @deprecated
This makes it sound like the ultimate plan is for client developers to use automatic dependency injection when/if they need an instance of the object manager. That’s going to make life tricky for developers converting extensions. By which I mean it’s going to make my life tricky.
This sort of change is also a good example of what the Magento 2 project is about right now. For many years, the Magento core team was forced into a situation where anything they released into the wild immediately had to be supported going forward. Magento 2’s long gestation cycle gives the developers breathing room to try new things, and evolve the development experience towards a better, more consistent path. I’ll be the first one on twitter with a “Magento 2 is Perl 6” joke, but in the past year we’ve seen real development resources allocated to the project. I don’t know what eBay’s plans are for Magento 2 in the future, but seeing what the developers are doing has peeled away a few layers of my cynicism about the project.