Attributes in ReflectionMethod::__toString

4 years ago by Markus Fasselt — view source

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Hi internals,

while debugging a cache issue in Symfony
(https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/39988), I noticed that e.g.
ReflectionMethod::__toString() does not give any information about
attributes on that method. The same applies to ReflectionClass and
ReflectionProperty.

But docblock comments are included in the string representation of
ReflectionClass and ReflectionMethods (but not ReflectionProperty?).

https://3v4l.org/U1vT0

I also noticed that ReflectionAttribute does not have a __toString()
method and cannot be casted to string, while other Reflection classes
can be casted to string.

I do not know much about the PHP internals, but this looks quite
inconsistent for me. Is there a reason for this or are attributes
missing in the string representations?

Kind regards,
Markus