# ReflectionParameter::getClassName() missing

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- Started by Rasmus Schultz on 2012-07-26T13:40:13+00:00
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## #61810 — Rasmus Schultz — 2012-07-26T13:40:13+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/61810#61810

I was doing some work with the Reflection API, and I ran into something
missing from ReflectionParameter.

Turns out, there's no way to get the class-name of a parameter, short of
calling getClass() - the problem with that is, there's no way to get the
class-name of a parameter without causing the class itself to autoload.

Okay, so I can work around that by __toString() and parsing that, but that
seems rather hacky.

Thoughts?