Third party object support in ZE2

Hi Steph,

-----Original Message-----
From: Steph Fox [mailto:steph@zend.com]
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 9:50 PM
To: Dmitry Stogov
Cc: Andrei; internals
Subject: Third party object support in ZE2

Hi Dmitry,

I gave up on IM now, it's too slow :)

Coming from the PHP-GTK project, we've noticed two areas where
ZEND_INTERNAL_CLASS is wrongly expected to adhere to
zend_object structure.

The more important of the two stems from a change you made in
mid-November
in CVS_HEAD and PHP_5_1, forcing a call to
zend_objects_destroy_object()
when there is no obj->dtor defined. (zend_objects_API.c,
revision 1.47.2.3).

Yes. This is my patch. It allws calling destructor in classes those extend
internal ones.
(Probably it can be reverted and all "bad" extensions should be fixed).

Reaching that function causes a crash in PHP-GTK 2 under some
circumstances.
Bug report open on this behaviour at http://bugs.php.net/35871.

I reproduced this crash.
The reason that "style_helper" is incompatible with "zend_object" and it
hasn't pointer to class entry.

I suggest to fix it on PHP-GTK level. I see two ways:

1. Make "style_helper" compatible with "zend_object".
2. Pass dumy dtor handler to zend_objects_store_put()
   (php_gtk++-types.c:382)

The second is that we can't guarantee third party objects will pass
zend_do_perform_implementation_check()... so if
display_startup_errors is
on, we get to know about it every time GTK+ objects break
PHP's inheritance
rules. Trivial patch attached appears to fix this minor
issue without
breaking anything currently in the test suite, but you might
know better.

I didn't understand why we should allow to break inheritance rules?
Right now we break rules only for "parent" internal functions without
arg_info.
I think this is enough. Why should we break ZE for "bad" extensions?
May be I missed something?

BTW: The patch has mistake: ZEND_INTERNAL_CLASS should be
ZEND_INTERNAL_FUNCTION.

Thanks. Dmitry.

• Steph