Add a custom controller entry in the Sonata menu

Question

I'm trying to following this section on Sonata's official website to add a custom controller to my menu.

What I have is a working controller;

class HelloController extends Controller {

    /**
     * 
     * @Template()
     * @param type $name
     * @return type
     */
    public function indexAction($name)
    {
        $admin_pool = $this->get('sonata.admin.pool');

        return array(
            'admin_pool' => $admin_pool,
            'name' => $name
        );
    }
}

I have registered the controller as a service in my services.yml file;

app.hello_controller:
    class: AppBundle\Controller\HelloController

And finally I've added the controller route as an item to the menu;

sonata_admin:
    dashboard:
        groups:
            Monitoring:
                items:
                    - app.hello_controller

But now I'm getting the error;

An exception has been thrown during the rendering of a template ("Admin service "app.hello_controller" not found in admin pool.") in SonataAdminBundle:Core:add_block.html.twig at line 5.

Can somebody please tell me what I'm missing, to add menu items this way?

Answer 1

You need to fix your config. In you example you are adding an admin service with the service id app.hello_controller to the menu.

What you need to do is add the following config to add one specific route / action from the controller:

config.yml

sonata_admin:
    dashboard:
        groups:
            Monitoring:
                items:
                    - route:     your_route_name
                      label:     Your Menu Item Label