UPDATE 2018-10-21:
As of this week, getRootDir()
was deprecated. Please use getProjectDir()
instead, as suggested in the comment section by Muzaraf Ali.
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Use this:
$this->get('kernel')->getRootDir();
And if you want the web root:
$this->get('kernel')->getRootDir() . '/../web' . $this->getRequest()->getBasePath();
this will work from controller action method...
EDIT: As for the services, I think the way you did it is as clean as possible, although I would pass complete kernel service as an argument... but this will also do the trick...