Any way to use wildcards via a factory/callback and create an instance from the container?

[defunctl]

Is something like this at all possible without creating the instance manually e.g. new $class( ... and having to manually build all the instance dependencies when I just need to dynamically define one?

The example definitions below would of course return an instance of the AutowireDefinitionHelper and not the real class instance.

Imagine later we call $container->get( My\Namespace\Fun\Things\Controller ); I'd like to tell PHP-DI that when the controller needs a concrete of say, DifferentClassInterface, that it would inject My\Namespace\Fun\Things\DifferentClass.

Example definitions:

return [
	'My\Namespace\*\*\Controller' => static function( DI\Factory\RequestedEntry $r ): ControllerInterface {
		$customDepdendency = DI\create( 'My\Namespace\*\*\DifferentClass' );

		// or? $customDepdendency = DI\get( 'My\Namespace\*\*\DifferentClass' );
		
		$class = $r->getName();

                // Imagine $class has 4 or 5 dependencies that can be resolved via autowiring
		return DI\autowire( $class )->constructorParameter( 'customDepdendency', $customDepdendency );
	},
];

[SvenRtbg]

It seems like you have a certain 1:1 mapping from a X\Controller requiring the proper X\DifferentClass. Unless you can provider a better explanation of why you'd want what you want, I'd suggest that simply requiring X\DifferentClass as a controller constructor parameter will easily be autowired out of the box.

[mnapoli]

I don't understand the context too I think. Isn't what the DI\Factory\RequestedEntry parameter meant for?