FW: Autoboxing in php 5.1

Hello Marcus / Adam,

While I have nothing against some kind of comment parser in the PHP core, I
think it's something which can be done perfectly in the userland (when the
ReflectionParameter::getDocComment() is added).
Instead I would like to see the XML Canonicalization functionality from
libxml2 exposed in userland as a first step to enable XML-signature /
XML-Encryption.

It's not either this or that here. There are different people working on
different parts of PHP. There is no masterplan, what has to be done
first and what later and which resources we use for what. Something is
done, when someone has the need for it or feels like doing this. It's
not that Adam, Marcus or Greg would now jump on implementing C14N
instead of parsing the docblocks ..

But I hope, you knew that before ;)

Or enabling the pre/post handling of the soap
request/response as a DOM, before the SOAP extension does his (great)
job.(While this is possible with raw post data and outbut buffering, it
would be more logical to re-use the same dom object).

I'm currently trying to add the Canonicalization functionality, but since
I'm not a C expert, it takes a while :)

Shouldn't be to hard, if your talking about the functions described at

http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-c14n.html

chregu

Regards,

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus Boerger [mailto:helly@php.net]
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 11:49 AM
To: Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg
Cc: johannes@php.net; David Kingma | jool.nl; 'Andi Gutmans'; 'Sean
Coates'; 'Ante Drnasin'; internals@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Autoboxing in php 5.1

Hello Adam,

ok, you propose a function to prepare the doc comments for further
processing. While this seems a good idea at first glance it is not
that easy as you typed it. The problem is that there are different
tags some of which stop at the next tag, some are just valid for the
word, some are valid for the current line and some are valid for a
pragraph. Thus it is better to provide an extension for that. And i
think it would be a good idea to start this as a set of php scripts.

regards
marcus

Saturday, February 12, 2005, 7:15:43 PM, you wrote:

ups, reading again i see it, it was
ReflectionProperty::getDocComment()

There's a generic getDocComment() method, but that just returns the
entire blob. You then need to parse the blog using the preg

functions

to extract individual lines. It would be useful to have the

Reflection

classes do this.

Sure, you can do this in userland code:

$field = 'link'; // specific comment $rc = new
ReflectionClass($this); $dc = $rc->getDocComment(); if
(preg_match("/@$field +(.+)/", $dc, $matches)) {
// do something with $matches;
}

But I think this would be cleaner:

$field = 'link'; // specific comment $rc = new
ReflectionClass($this); $matches = $rc->getDocComment($field);
foreach ($matches as

$match) {

// do something with $match;
}

As I would prefer to put the comment matching logic in the

reflection

classes, so you can write tools that can rely upon a standardized
format for supplying meta data about a class, method, etc.

Not a big deal one way or another, but this could solve some of the
WSDL generation arguments (which I would love to solve) without
requiring major language changes, such as native type hinting.

-adam

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