# Reflection API RFC - Thread: https://externals.io/message/475 - Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/475 - Started by Andrei Zmievski on 2003-03-29T20:37:30+00:00 - Messages: 11 - Reply by email to internals@lists.php.net - More for agents: search with https://externals.io/search.md?q={query} · JSON API at https://externals.io/api · documentation at https://externals.io/llms.txt --- ## #475 — Andrei Zmievski — 2003-03-29T20:37:30+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/475#475 I have the first draft of PHP 5 reflection API ready. You can find it at: http://www.gravitonic.com/software/php/reflection.txt Comments and suggestions are appreciated. -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth --- ## #479 — marcus.boerger@t-online.de — 2003-03-29T21:00:33+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/475#479 · In reply to: #475 At 21:37 29.03.2003, Andrei Zmievski wrote: >I have the first draft of PHP 5 reflection API ready. You can find it >at: > > http://www.gravitonic.com/software/php/reflection.txt > >Comments and suggestions are appreciated. What about doing it with some interfaces? marcus --- ## #481 — Andrei Zmievski — 2003-03-29T21:09:40+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/475#481 · In reply to: #479 > > […] > > > What about doing it with some interfaces? Why? -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ * Software never has bugs. It just develops random features. * --- ## #485 — Timm Friebe — 2003-03-29T21:28:00+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/475#485 · In reply to: #475 > I have the first draft of PHP 5 reflection API ready. You can find it > at: > > http://www.gravitonic.com/software/php/reflection.txt > > Comments and suggestions are appreciated. * ClassType::getMethods([int flags]); I assume flags is a bitfield of private, public, protected, final and so on, defaulting to all of them? - Timm --- ## #486 — Andrei Zmievski — 2003-03-29T21:34:28+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/475#486 · In reply to: #485 > > […] > > * ClassType::getMethods([int flags]); > > I assume flags is a bitfield of private, public, protected, final > and so on, defaulting to all of them? Something like that. I haven't finalized what kind of method searching will be available. Perhaps one of the flags will be REGEXP with a optional argument specifying the regexp to match method name against. -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth --- ## #491 — Alan Knowles — 2003-03-30T02:03:08+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/475#491 · In reply to: #475 A few more ideas for it:) - If you stored token start/end then you would be able to do getSource for function/method/class.. etc.. (which can do a load file/tokenizer and return implode('',array_range(starttoken,endtoken) - and add the generic methods loadTokens(); and freeTokens(); so that memory can be managed reasonably for them.. * it may also be better to store the token of the doc comment - On some of the pear classes the comment code is larger than the PHP code, and would be quite an overhead... - just make it throw an exception if you forgot to load the tokens for it.. - there appears to be no arguments array for methods/functions - not sure if extendsClass(), would be implemented by Implements?, and theres no getExtendsArray(), to return the tree of extends - constructors: - $classdetails = new ClassType('myclass'); $classdetails = new ClassType($this); rather than $classdetails = ClassType::fromName('myclass') $classdetails = ClassType::fromInstance('myclass') - I still think it would be nice to implement some of them as variables so that print_r($classdetails); would display some cute output... btw - It would also be nice to have unloadclass - so a) the codedoc generators - could load and free classes. b) php-gtk could reload modules rather than having to restart each time to test code.. Regards Alan Andrei Zmievski wrote: >I have the first draft of PHP 5 reflection API ready. You can find it >at: > > http://www.gravitonic.com/software/php/reflection.txt > >Comments and suggestions are appreciated. > >-Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ > >"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, > not tried it." -- Donald Knuth --- ## #508 — Andi Gutmans — 2003-03-30T17:44:15+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/475#508 · In reply to: #475 At 03:37 PM 3/29/2003 -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote: >I have the first draft of PHP 5 reflection API ready. You can find it >at: > > http://www.gravitonic.com/software/php/reflection.txt > >Comments and suggestions are appreciated. By the way, I might have missed it,but maybe we should have a way to check if the method was defined in the specific class or if it is inherited. Andi --- ## #510 — Jon Parise — 2003-03-30T19:53:55+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/475#510 · In reply to: #475 > I have the first draft of PHP 5 reflection API ready. You can find it > at: > > http://www.gravitonic.com/software/php/reflection.txt > > Comments and suggestions are appreciated. It would be cool if there was a way to get the (defined) set of parameters for a function / method. I'm going to assume that, because it's not included in your proposal, it's not currently possible given the current model, though. -- Jon Parise (jon@php.net) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/) --- ## #514 — Andrei Zmievski — 2003-03-30T20:49:36+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/475#514 · In reply to: #510 > It would be cool if there was a way to get the (defined) set of > parameters for a function / method. I'm going to assume that, because > it's not included in your proposal, it's not currently possible given > the current model, though. Right. The engine would need to be modified in order to keep track of that. -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein --- ## #554 — Andrei Zmievski — 2003-03-31T20:52:21+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/475#554 · In reply to: #491 > - If you stored token start/end then you would be able to do getSource > for function/method/class.. etc.. (which can do a load file/tokenizer > and return implode('',array_range(starttoken,endtoken) Keeping track of the tokens this way would require quite some code, I think. > * it may also be better to store the token of the doc comment - On some > of the pear classes the comment code is larger than the PHP code, and > would be quite an overhead... - just make it throw an exception if you > forgot to load the tokens for it.. Hmm, I see the point, but is that really a problem? If a lot of people are worried about the overhead of storing doc comments, we could perhaps store only the starting/ending line of the comment and let the other tools extract them. But it means that the tools have to have access to the original source file - not really possible with 3rd party software distributed under an encoder, for example. > - there appears to be no arguments array for methods/functions No really good way of doing it with the current architecture. I defer to Andi/Zeev to see if it's possible to capture the declared parameters somehow.. > - not sure if extendsClass(), would be implemented by Implements?, and > theres no getExtendsArray(), to return the tree of extends What would extendsClass() do? > - constructors: - > $classdetails = new ClassType('myclass'); > $classdetails = new ClassType($this); > rather than > $classdetails = ClassType::fromName('myclass') > $classdetails = ClassType::fromInstance('myclass') I'd rather avoid overloading. And in this case, these methods are basically factories. > - I still think it would be nice to implement some of them as variables > so that > print_r($classdetails); would display some cute output... We could always have toString() method for each one.. > btw - It would also be nice to have unloadclass - so > a) the codedoc generators - could load and free classes. > b) php-gtk could reload modules rather than having to restart each time > to test code.. What do you mean by unloadclass? -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli --- ## #562 — Sebastian Bergmann — 2003-04-01T07:07:20+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/475#562 · In reply to: #554 Andrei Zmievski wrote: > What do you mean by unloadclass? I think what the name suggests: unload a class, ie. undeclare it. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Did I help you? Consider a gift: http://wishlist.sebastian-bergmann.de/