Suggestions for Reflection API

21 years ago by Sebastian Bergmann — view source

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Hi,

I just looked for the first time in months at the Reflection API and
have two suggestions:

1.) There are a couple of methods that throw an Exception.

    I think it would be better to introduce a Reflection_Exception
    class that is thrown instead of the standard Exception.

    If possible, it might be a good idea to only allow throwing
    Reflection_Exception instances to the internal Reflection_*
    classes.

2.) getVersion() is currently only declared for Reflection_Extension.

    I think it would be nice if we had versioning for classes and
    methods available through the Reflection API, too.

    This could be achieved, for instance, by either introducing yet
    another __-prepended property (const $__version = '1.0.0', for
    example) or by using metadata in doc-comments (@version 1.0.0).

    This would solve the versioning problem that is currently
    discussed on the pear-dev list, IMHO.

Greetings,
Sebastian

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