Hi,

I have an application design question.

Lets say I have multiple providers, that will send me delivery reports. I want to store the raw data (which differ from each provider) in a provider specific mysql table and transform it into a universal delivery report for the rest of my system. Without having to add the dependencies in the provider classes.

I was thinking something like this

class BaseDeliveryReport implements DeliveryReportInterface
{
	protected $repo;

	public function __construct(DeliveryReportRepositoryInterface $repo)
	{
		$this->repo = $repo;
	}

	public function create($attributes)
	{
		// Store delivery report etc...
	}
	// ...
}

My thought was to then do this:

class Provider1DeliveryReport extends BaseDeliveryReport
{
	protected function storeRawData($attributes) {
		// Provider specific stuff here
	}

	public function create($attributes)
	{
		$this->storeRawData($attributes);
		parent::create($attributes);
	}
}

$data = Input::all(); // or something...

$deliveryReport = new Provider1DeliveryReport();
$deliveryReport->create($data);

From my understanding I cannot do this, and I wonder how I can solve this without having to repeat the dependency injection in each providers constructor.

Thanks :)