Hello everyone,

I have created a simple patch that extends PHP ReflectionException
Messages in the case of a missing property or method when calling:

$reflClass->getProperty('notKnown');
$reflClass->getMethod('notKnown');

Currently, in both cases only the unknown property and method names are
referenced but not the class-name. In our Doctrine 2
code basis, where we use Reflection heavily this can be pretty annoying
for users to debug, since there is no context to check
against.

The interesting portion of the patch is here, the whole patch file
contains changes to the test-cases also:

Index: ext/reflection/php_reflection.c

--- ext/reflection/php_reflection.c (revision 296963)
+++ ext/reflection/php_reflection.c (working copy)
@@ -3425,7 +3425,7 @@
} else {
efree(lc_name);
zend_throw_exception_ex(reflection_exception_ptr, 0 TSRMLS_CC,

•   		"Method %s does not exist", name);
  

•   		"Method %s::%s() does not exist", ce->name, name);
    return;
  

  }
  }
  @@ -3602,7 +3602,7 @@
  }
  }
  zend_throw_exception_ex(reflection_exception_ptr, 0 TSRMLS_CC,

•   	"Property %s does not exist", name);
  

•   	"Property %s::%s does not exist", ce->name, name);
  

}
/* }}} *

The patch is against SVN trunk.

greetings,
Benjamin