Available since MediaWiki 1.27, MediaWikiServices.php offers an important central class for Service Location and Dependency Injection (DI). Many of MediaWiki's core services are called from here.

Examples of public methods:

• getInstance() - get a reference to a service container
• getService()
  • getAuthManager() - get AuthManager as a service
  • getBlobStore() - ... BlobStore
  • getCentralIdLookup()- ... CentralIdLookup
  • getCollationFactory() - ... CollationFactory
  • getConfigSchema()
  • getContentHandlerFactory() - ... ContentHandlerFactory
  • getContentHandler() - ... ContentHandler
  • getContentLanguage()
  • getContentRenderer() - ...ContentRenderer (since 1.38)
  • getContentTransformer() - ...ContentTransformer (since 1.37)
  • getNamespaceInfo() - ... NamespaceInfo
  • getPageProps() - ... PageProps
  • getParser() - ... Parser
  • getParserCache() - ... ParserCache
  • getParserCacheFactory() - ... ParserCacheFactory (MW 1.36+)
  • getParserFactory() - ... ParserFactory
  • getParserOutputAccess() - ... ParserOutputAccess (MW 1.36+)
  • getRepoGroup() - ... RepoGroup
  • getRevisionFactory() - ... RevisionFactory
  • getRevisionLookup() - ... RevisionLookup
  • getRevisionRenderer() - ... RevisionRenderer
  • getRevisionStore() - ... RevisionStore
  • getRevisionStoreFactory() - ... RevisionStoreFactory
  • getRollbackPageFactory() - ... RollbackPageFactory
  • getWikiPageFactory() - ... WikiPageFactory

See also

• Dependency Injection
• Manual:ServiceWiring.php
• Manual:ServiceContainer.php (removed in 1.35)