Would there be any mileage or interest in having PHP's COM class support Reflection?

2008/6/13 Marcus Boerger helly@php.net:

Hello Richard,

well the correct solution is: ReflectionClass::export($classname)
but anyway, you found a bug, please file a report for it.

The issue is that the class is COM and ReflectionClass::export('COM') works
but COM is an empty class. I want to reflect an instance of a COM class.
ReflectionObject::export(new COM('....')); would be what I expect to work.

It seems that the com_print_typeinfo() function provides the sort of
information I am expecting.

I'll raise the bug as I cannot get any reflectors to report the COM content.

Richard.

marcus

Friday, June 13, 2008, 5:12:09 PM, you wrote:

2008/6/13 Richard Quadling rquadling@googlemail.com:

2008/6/13 Lars Strojny lars@strojny.net:

Hi Richard,

Am Freitag, den 13.06.2008, 15:38 +0100 schrieb Richard Quadling:

Out of interest, I tried the following line of userland PHP ...

php -n -r "Reflection::export(new
COM('CrystalReports11.ObjectFactory.1'));"

The error reported is ...

Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to Reflection::export() must
implement interface Reflector, instance of com given in Command line
code on
line 1

Read the error report and than take a look at the documentation:
http://de.php.net/language.oop5.reflection

This should work:
Reflection::export(
new ReflectionObject(
new COM('CrystablReports11.ObjectFactory.1')
)
);

cu, Lars

<?php
$o_CrObjectFactory = New COM("CrystalReports11.ObjectFactory.1");

Reflection::export(new ReflectionObject($o_CrObjectFactory));
?>

and that gets a crash. MS's Dr.Watson kicks in.

I'm certainly not expecting COM objects to support reflection natively
(that's most likely the cause of the crash).

I should have said "I'm certainly not expecting COM objects to support
reflection natively at the moment".

It would be nice if ... that's all.

Best regards,
Marcus

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