# Reflection API

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/2977
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- Started by George Schlossnagle on 2003-06-29T19:18:34+00:00
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## #2977 — George Schlossnagle — 2003-06-29T19:18:34+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/2977#2977

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:
> > […]
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>   I refactored it a bit:
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>     http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/stuff/reflection-update.png
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>   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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## #3039 — Andi Gutmans — 2003-06-30T16:04:14+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/2977#3039 · In reply to: #2977

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
>
>
>
>
> > […]
>-- George Schlossnagle
>-- Principal Consultant
>-- OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
>-- +1.410.872.4910 x202
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