Magento 2. Update customer attribute outside Setup [Install|Upgrade]Data

Question

I'm trying to ad a customer attribute outside a Setup Script.

To be more specific inside a console command using CustomerSetupFactory::updateAttribute method.

I get an error caused by DI.

Argument 1 passed to Magento\Setup\Module\DataSetup::__construct() must be an instance of Magento\Framework\Module\Setup\Context, instance of Magento\Framework\ObjectManager\ObjectManager given, called in /var/www/magento/vendor/magento/framework/ObjectManager/Factory/AbstractFactory.php on line 93 in /var/www/magento/setup/src/Magento/Setup/Module/DataSetup.php on line 57

Is there any reason why not to do what I'm trying to achieve?

Is there any way to fix my problem?

What I did

Cleared cache. Cleared var/generation and var/di manually. Ran setup:di:compile

Thanks

EDIT:

This works if:

1. Clear var/generation manually 

2. Do not run setup:di:compile and run my CLI Command

It does not work if setup:di:copile ran. I have to mention that setup:di:compile ran without error

What is causing this behavior is setup:di:compile at fault?

Answer 1

I did following way and working fine with compile. You can try.

app/code/SR/Stackexchange/etc/di.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <type name="Magento\Framework\Console\CommandList">
        <arguments>
            <argument name="commands" xsi:type="array">
                <item name="add_customer_attribute_command" xsi:type="object">SR\Stackexchange\Console\Command\AddCustomerAttribute</item>
            </argument>
        </arguments>
    </type>
</config>

app/code/SR/Stackexchange/Console/Command/AddCustomerAttribute.php

namespace SR\Stackexchange\Console\Command;

use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
use Magento\Customer\Model\Customer;
use Magento\Customer\Setup\CustomerSetup;
use \Magento\Framework\Setup\ModuleDataSetupInterface;

class AddCustomerAttribute extends Command
{
    /**
     * Customer setup factory
     *
     * @var \Magento\Customer\Setup\CustomerSetupFactory
     */
    private $customerSetupFactory;

    /**
     * @var ModuleDataSetupInterface
     */
    private $setup;

    /**
     * @var \Magento\Framework\App\State
     */
    private $appState;

    /**
     * @var \Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface
     */
    private $output;

    /**
     * AddCustomerAttribute constructor.
     *
     * @param \Magento\Customer\Setup\CustomerSetupFactory $customerSetupFactory
     * @param ModuleDataSetupInterface $setup
     * @param \Magento\Framework\App\State $appState
     */
    public function __construct(
        \Magento\Customer\Setup\CustomerSetupFactory $customerSetupFactory,
        ModuleDataSetupInterface $setup,
        \Magento\Framework\App\State $appState
    ) {
        $this->customerSetupFactory = $customerSetupFactory;
        $this->setup = $setup;
        $this->appState = $appState;

        $this->appState->setAreaCode(\Magento\Framework\App\Area::AREA_ADMINHTML);

        parent::__construct();
    }

    /**
     * Initialization of the command
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function configure()
    {
        $this->setName('sr:customerattribute')
            ->setDescription('Add customer attribute');
        parent::configure();
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
    {
        ini_set('memory_limit', '-1');

        $this->output = $output;

        try {
            $output->writeln(
                "Start"
            );

            /** @var CustomerSetup $customerSetup */
            $customerSetup = $this->customerSetupFactory->create(['setup' => $this->setup]);

            // Add new customer attribute
            $customerSetup->addAttribute(
                Customer::ENTITY,
                'company',
                [

                    'label'                 => 'Company',
                    'input'                 => 'text',
                    'required'              => false,
                    'sort_order'            => 1000,
                    'position'              => 1000,
                    'visible'               => true,
                    'system'                => false,
                    'is_used_in_grid'       => true,
                    'is_visible_in_grid'    => false,
                    'is_filterable_in_grid' => false,
                    'is_searchable_in_grid' => false,
                    'default'               => '0'
                ]
            );

            // add attribute to form
            /** @var  $attribute */
            $attribute = $customerSetup->getEavConfig()->getAttribute(Customer::ENTITY, 'company');
            $attribute->setData('used_in_forms', ['adminhtml_customer', 'customer_account_create', 'customer_account_edit']);
            $attribute->save();

            $output->writeln(
                "<info>Completed</info>"
            );
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            $output->writeln('<error>' . $e->getMessage() . '</error>');
            if ($output->getVerbosity() >= OutputInterface::VERBOSITY_VERBOSE) {
                $output->writeln($e->getTraceAsString());
            }
            return;
        }
    }
}

Command

php bin/magento sr:customerattribute