#50857 [NEW]: Can't subclass RecursiveFilterIterator and change constructor signature

From: dennis at born05 dot nl Operating system: Fedora Core 6 PHP version: 5.2.12 PHP Bug Type: SPL related Bug description: Can't subclass RecursiveFilterIterator and change constructor signature Description: ------------ When you subclass RecursiveFilterIterator and change the constructor's signature you get Catchable fatal errors and warnings about missing arguments when iterating. Reproduce code: --------------- class AutoLoaderFilterIterator extends RecursiveFilterIterator { private $excludes = array(); public function __construct(RecursiveIterator $iterator, array $excludes) { parent::__construct($iterator); $this->excludes = $excludes; } public function accept() { return true; } } $it = new RecursiveIteratorIterator( new AutoLoaderFilterIterator( new RecursiveDirectoryIterator('/path/to/dir/hierarchy') ,array() ) ); foreach($it as $file) { echo $file->getFilename()."<br/>"; } Expected result: ---------------- A list of files Actual result: -------------- For each iteration a Catchable fatal error and a Warning is issued Catchable fatal error: Argument 2 passed to AutoLoaderFilterIterator::__construct() must be an array, none given in RecursiveFilterIterator_bug.php on line 20 Warning: Missing argument 2 for AutoLoaderFilterIterator::__construct() in RecursiveFilterIterator_bug.php on line 20 (Line 20 being the constructor declaration of AutoLoaderFilterIterator) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50857&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50857&r=mysqlcfg