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Reply-To: Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net>
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To: Bob Silva <me@bobsilva.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Reflection API idea
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Bob,

  have you looked at head output of Reflection lately? I guess that contains
all you want, right?

marcus

Wednesday, November 23, 2005, 5:19:10 AM, you wrote:

> Here's an idea for the maintainer of the Reflection API, to be able to view
> the class a method is defined in (if not overridden).


> class Vehicle {
>     function go() {}
>     function crash() {}
> }

> class Car extends Vehicle {
>     function crash() {}
>     function collectInsurance() {}
> }

> class Ford extends Car {
>     function fixOrRepairDaily() {}
> }

> Reflection::export(new ReflectionClass(Car));


> Class [ <user> class Ford extends Car ] {
>   
>   - Methods [4] {
>     Method [ <user> public method fixOrRepairDaily ] {
>     }

>     Method [ <user> public method crash inherited from Car ] {
>     }

>     Method [ <user> public method collectInsurance inherited from Car ] {
>     }

>     Method [ <user> public method go inherited from Vehicle ] {
>     }
>   }

> I am developing on a Windows machine so a Unified Patch isn't easily
> attainable (with the tools I have at least).

> Psuedo Patch:
> Modify _function_string in zend_reflection_api.c to take a zend_class_entry
> of the reflecting class or NULL if not used in a class context.
> Then add the "inherited from" section as below (or however you'd like to
> implement).

> string_printf(str, "%s", fptr->common.function_name);
> if (fptr->common.scope && memcmp(fptr->common.scope->name, ce->name)) {
>     string_printf(str, " inherited from %s", fptr->common.scope->name);
> }
> string_printf(str, " ] {\n");


> Not sure if this works in all situations, I'll leave that for you guys to
> determine if you think this is useful functionality.

> Bob Silva




Best regards,
 Marcus