Reflection API

I must be thick. I don't quite understand how the source relates to what is
described in the .png. Take for example the following from the api.c file:

static zend_function_entry php_function_functions[] = {
ZEND_FE(php_function, NULL) ZEND_FE(php_function_isinternal, NULL)
ZEND_FALIAS(isinternal, php_function_isinternal, NULL)
ZEND_FE(php_function_isuserdefined, NULL) ZEND_FALIAS(isuserdefined,
php_function_isinternal, NULL) ZEND_FE(php_function_getname, NULL)
ZEND_FALIAS(getname, php_function_getname, NULL)
ZEND_FE(php_function_getfilename, NULL) ZEND_FALIAS(getfilename,
php_function_getfilename, NULL) ZEND_FE(php_function_getstartline, NULL)
ZEND_FALIAS(getstartline, php_function_getstartline, NULL)
ZEND_FE(php_function_getendline, NULL) ZEND_FALIAS(getendline,
php_function_getendline, NULL) ZEND_FE(php_function_getdoccomment, NULL)
ZEND_FALIAS(getdoccomment, php_function_getdoccomment, NULL)
ZEND_FE(php_function_getstaticvariables, NULL)
ZEND_FALIAS(getstaticvariables, php_function_getstaticvariables, NULL)
ZEND_FE(php_function_invoke, NULL) ZEND_FALIAS(invoke, php_function_invoke,
NULL) {NULL, NULL, NULL}

Are these functions meant to be called by the user? They are pretty ugly.
Can you show a small piece of example code on how this reflection API is
supposed to be used?
Once we make sure it looks good to everyone I have no problem with you
commiting your work.

Andi

At 03:18 PM 29/6/2003 -0400, George Schlossnagle wrote:

Here is a first implementation of the reflection api, for functions (class
PHP_Function in you diagram)

http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/php/reflection.diff
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/php/zend_reflection_api.c
http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/php/zend_reflection_api.h

Comments? Thoughts?
George

Sebastian Bergmann wrote:

http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/stuff/reflection.png

I refactored it a bit:

http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/stuff/reflection-update.png

IMHO it is essential that PHP_Field and PHP_Method implement a
common interface (like their counterparts from java.lang.reflect do)
to ease iterating through a class's members, for instance.

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