Issue with sub-directories

[Tostifrosti]

I recently installed this package to slowly enable authorization for my project. Installing it and configuring the basics worked perfectly fine. However, I'm a bit struggling with implementing the policy/entity relation using the OrmResolver.

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong here, but it seems that placing entities/policies in sub-directories doesn't seem to work for me.

My folder structure:

src/
    Model/
        Entity/
            SubDir/
                User.php
    Policy/
        SubDir/
            UserPolicy.php

I'm using the OrmResolver to automatically resolve the entity/policy relation as my project has a lot of entities (~170). Using the MapResolver to map the relations manually would be quite an inconvenience.

I noticed during debugging that my issue mainly lies within the OrmResolver::getEntityPolicy or App::className.
The first function seems to prepare the data for App::className to resolve the Policy based on an entity instance/class.

It resolves to something like this:

App::className('App.SubDir\User', 'Policy', 'Policy');
// = null

The implementation of App::className has an early return on the first line (str_contains($class, '\\')) which stops the search directly.

If the usage would be changed to the following, the App::className would be working as intended.

App::className('App.SubDir/User', 'Policy', 'Policy'); // Notice the '\' being changed to '/'.
// = 'App\Policy\SubDir\UserPolicy'

I can't tell if this is an issue within the core cakephp function, or due to the preparation done by OrmResolver::getEntityPolicy.
Does anyone know if this is a simple misconfiguration on my end, a bug in this project or a bug in the cakephp project?

[ADmad]

Sub directories are not supported for any class type when using short names/ aliases. Use FQCN instead.

[LordSimal]

Instead of trying to make use of subdirectories here I'd rather recommend you try to split up your code into a private plugin inside your plugins directory.

See https://book.cakephp.org/5/en/plugins.html#creating-your-own-plugins

[Tostifrosti]

Thanks for the quick replies!

@LordSimal I don't think moving (almost) all the source code to plugins is the best approach in my situation. It might be a nice DDD solution, but certain resources are shared between domains which makes it a bit tricky. Especially if I only want to implement a simple Authorization solution.

@ADmad If I understand you correctly, the issue lies within this package? Unfortunately, I don't have any control on the 'auto discover' functionality of the OrmResolver (aside from writing my own OrmResolver).

[jamisonbryant]

aside from writing my own OrmResolver

For what it's worth this is what we ended up doing to add some custom functionality in our app. It is not too difficult.