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I often want to have my controllers be a service so you can inject some information. But at the same time i like to extend the base controller Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller to have the convenience methods like $this->render. Now if you just create a service from your controller, you won't be able to use the methods anymore. You will get exceptions about calling get() on a non-object.

What you need to do is inject the service_container to your controller manually.

In XML, this looks like this:

<service id="liip_vie.viecontroller" class="%liip_vie.viecontroller.class%" public="true">
    <argument type="service" id="service_container"/>
    ...
</service>

In YML, it looks like this

services:
    liip_vie.viecontroller:
        class:     %liip_vie.viecontroller.class%
        arguments:
            - "@service_container"
            -  ...

And your constructor will look like this:

use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
...
public function __construct(ContainerInterface $container, ...)
    {
        $this->setContainer($container);
        ...
    }

Hope this helps. At least i always forget how to do it. Now i know where to look it up when i need it next time :-)