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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:33:38 -0500
To: Matt Friedman <matt.friedman@gmail.com>,
	Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] SOAP Question re: Class Mapping & Constructors
From: andrew@plexpod.com (Andrew Yochum)

Hi Matt & Dmitry,

Calling the magic __wakeup() func might be appropriate in this case,
since SOAP envelope deserialization is a lot like regular
deserialization.  It is a lot less confusing than calling the
constructor w/ no args and seems quite appropriate given the context.

Andrew

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:22:25PM -0500, Matt Friedman wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> It is understandable that you don't know what the arguments might be.
> But I would rather have the constructor called with no arguments, or
> with just the std object `book` passed to the constructor instead of
> no constructor at all.
> 
> Is it possible?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt.
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/13/05, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > During SOAP envelope deserialization, objects are created indirectly.
> > So constructors are not called (constructor may need arguments).
> >
> > This is not a bug.
> >
> > Thanks. Dmitry.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Matt Friedman [mailto:matt.friedman@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:49 PM
> > > To: internals@lists.php.net
> > > Subject: [PHP-DEV] SOAP Question re: Class Mapping & Constructors
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We are using the built-in SOAP extension.
> > >
> > > From the docs:
> > > $server = new SoapClient("books.wsdl", array('classmap' =>
> > > array('book' => "MyBook")));
> > >
> > > Soap server will return a complex data type 'book'.  The data
> > > fields for book will be mapped to the php class' data fields
> > > in MyBook. It seems that the constructor for MyBook is never
> > > called (according to our tests). The data fields are mapped
> > > somehow internally.
> > >
> > > If I want MyBook to be much more than just a data container,
> > > then I can foresee that I will often want/need a constructor
> > > but __construct is not called.
> > >
> > > Could this be considered a bug? Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > --
> > > -- Matt Friedman
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Andrew Yochum
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