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Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:46:31 +0000
To: "php internals" <internals@lists.php.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: retrieve line, filename and if user defined for
 ReflectionAttribute
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From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, at 1:09 PM, Joel Wurtz wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Like a lot of libraries, we offer the possibility to configure=20
> behaviors with Attributes. However in some cases it's wrongly=20
> configured by the user and this wrong configuration cannot be detected=20
> on the attribute constructor but afterwards.
>
> In this case we may want to pinpoint which attribute (in which file an=
d=20
> at which line) cause this bad configuration. Since there was no method=20
> to retrieve those information in the ReflectionAttribute I proposed a=20
> PR https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/13889 to add those informations.
>
> I do believe this will allow better DX for end user when correctly use=
d,
>
> Regards,
>
> Jo=C3=ABl Wurtz

Do you have an example of how you expect this to be used?  I'm having a =
hard time understanding how I'd leverage this.  (I maintain an attribute=
 enhancement library, Crell/AttributeUtils, so I've hit a lot of edge ca=
ses in attribute design.)

--Larry Garfield