Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:112240 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 51454 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2020 13:37:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO php-smtp4.php.net) (45.112.84.5) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 12 Nov 2020 13:37:41 -0000 Received: from php-smtp4.php.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by php-smtp4.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65F21804C6 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2020 05:00:19 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on php-smtp4.php.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,KHOP_HELO_FCRDNS, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Virus: No X-Envelope-From: Received: from processus.org (ns366368.ip-94-23-14.eu [94.23.14.201]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by php-smtp4.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2020 05:00:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from authenticated-user (PRIMARY_HOSTNAME [PUBLIC_IP]) by processus.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5800B1FEBE for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:00:16 +0000 (UTC) To: "internals@lists.php.net" Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:00:14 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Authentication-Results: processus.org; auth=pass smtp.auth=pierre-php@processus.org smtp.mailfrom=pierre-php@processus.org X-Spamd-Bar: / Subject: Why there is no StreamWrapper interface ? From: pierre-php@processus.org (Pierre) Hello all, This might be a stupid question, or it may have already been answered tons of times, but is there any valid reason for not having a StreamWrapper interface as documented there: https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.streamwrapper.php Or if some methods are optional, multiple interfaces, or if all methods are optional, an abstract base class in PHP standard library ? Regards, Pierre