Whether Magento 2 generates a class for a virtual type?

dmitry_fedyuk · March 3, 2017, 10:50am

No.

magento/magento2/blob/2.1.5/lib/internal/Magento/Framework/ObjectManager/Config/Config.php#L134-L146


/**
 * Retrieve instance type
 *
 * @param string $instanceName
 * @return mixed
 */
public function getInstanceType($instanceName)
{
    while (isset($this->_virtualTypes[$instanceName])) {
        $instanceName = $this->_virtualTypes[$instanceName];
    }
    return $instanceName;
}

$this->_virtualTypes is an associative array like:

dmitry_fedyuk · March 3, 2017, 10:52am