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Magento 2 – Tutorial : new model – Part 2 – creating the PHP classes

Magento 2 – Tutorial : new model – Part 2 – creating the PHP classes

Introduction

This article is the 2nd part of a series in which I go through the procedure to create a new model in magento 2, with its own magento 2 admin grid in the Back Office.

You can go back to the first part if you wish.

As a preamble, I have to say that this tutorial series has been developed and tested with Magento version 2.4.2.

I remind you that for the purpose of the article I am going to create a "provider" model and that our code will be contained in an "Addeos_ModelTutorial" module.

In the first part I have explained how to create the DB table using declarative XML. In this second part, I will create the PHP classes :

  • the API data interface
  • the model that implements the interface
  • the resource model
  • the collection resource model

Creating the API data interface

If we want to respect the concept of service contracts which is a good thing and recommanded by Magento, I need to create some PHP interfaces first. Here is some more details about service contracts.

By convention, these PHP interfaces have to be in an Api folder and a Data folder for data interfaces.

The first interface to create is the ProviderInterface : Api/Data/ProviderInterface.php.

Here is the code :

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Addeos\ModelTutorial\Api\Data;

/**
 * @api
 */
interface ProviderInterface
{
    const ENTITY_ID = 'entity_id';
    const CREATED_AT = 'created_at';
    const UPDATED_AT = 'updated_at';
    const NAME = 'name';
    const DESCRIPTION = 'description';

    public function getEntityId(): ?int;

    public function setEntityId(int $entityId);

    public function getName(): ?string;

    public function setName(string $name);

    public function getDescription(): ?string;

    public function setDescription(string $description);

    public function getCreatedAt(): ?string;

    public function setCreatedAt(string $createdAt);

    public function getUpdatedAt(): ?string;

    public function setUpdatedAt(string $updatedAt);

}

Creating the PHP model

I then need to create the PHP model that will implement the interface we have just created. This PHP class will extend \Magento\Framework\Model\AbstractModel.

Here is the code :

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Addeos\ModelTutorial\Model;

use Addeos\ModelTutorial\Api\Data\ProviderInterface;
use Magento\Framework\Model\AbstractModel;

class Provider extends AbstractModel implements ProviderInterface
{

    public function getName(): ?string
    {
        return $this->getData(self::NAME);
    }

    public function setName(string $name)
    {
        $this->setData(self::NAME, $name);
    }

    public function getDescription(): ?string
    {
        return $this->getData(self::DESCRIPTION);
    }

    public function setDescription(string $description)
    {
        $this->setData(self::DESCRIPTION, $description);
    }

    public function getCreatedAt(): ?string
    {
        return $this->getData(self::CREATED_AT);
    }

    public function setCreatedAt(string $createdAt)
    {
        $this->setData(self::CREATED_AT, $createdAt);
    }

    public function getUpdatedAt(): ?string
    {
        return $this->getData(self::CREATED_AT);
    }

    public function setUpdatedAt(string $updatedAt)
    {
        $this->setData(self::UPDATED_AT, $updatedAt);
    }
}

Creating the resource model

I now need to create resource model.

The file is Model/ResourceModel/Provider.php.

Here is the code :

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Addeos\ModelTutorial\Model\ResourceModel;

use Magento\Framework\Model\ResourceModel\Db\AbstractDb;

class Provider extends AbstractDb
{
    protected function _construct()
    {
        $this->_init('addeos_provider', 'entity_id');
    }
}

Creating the collection resource model

I now need to create the provider collection resource model.

The file is ModelResourceModel/Provider/Collection.php.

Her is the code :

<?php

namespace Addeos\ModelTutorial\Model\ResourceModel\Provider;

use Addeos\ModelTutorial\Model\Provider;
use Addeos\ModelTutorial\Model\ResourceModel\Provider as ProviderResourceModel;
use Magento\Framework\Model\ResourceModel\Db\Collection\AbstractCollection;

class Collection extends AbstractCollection
{
    protected $_idFieldName = 'entity_id';
    protected $_eventPrefix = 'addeos_provider_collection';
    protected $_eventObject = 'addeos_provider_collection';

    protected function _construct()
    {
        $this->_init(Provider::class, ProviderResourceModel::class);
    }
}

And that's all. From that point we have all the necessary classes for now.

In next post, I will explain now how to create the grid in Back Office to visualize the data of our new table.

berliozd