Hello,

I never understood why methods are public and not protected. Is there needed to have them public ? IMO it can only suggest a wrong usage of the controller.

In another way KnpRadBundle propose a new way to work with theses methods by using Helpers, this make. What do you think about implementing them in Symfony ?

https://github.com/KnpLabs/KnpRadBundle/blob/develop/Controller/Controller.php#L14

So in summary this is 3 proposal:

• Switch controller methods to protectedinstead of public;
• Make the controller abstract;
• Add helpers the controller uses.

Thanks for attention :) .

[edit] After discussion, I added a third point.