Req #55490 [PATCH]: Allow instantiating objects without invoking the constructor

From: Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:24:37 +0000
Subject: Req #55490 [PATCH]: Allow instantiating objects without invoking the constructor
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Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55490&edit=1

 ID:                 55490
 Patch added by:     sebastian@php.net
 Reported by:        sebastian@php.net
 Summary:            Allow instantiating objects without invoking the
                     constructor
 Status:             Open
 Type:               Feature/Change Request
 Package:            Reflection related
 Operating System:   Irrelevant
 PHP Version:        Irrelevant
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

The following patch has been added/updated:

Patch Name: ReflectionClass_newInstanceWithoutConstructor
Revision:   1314264277
URL:        https://bugs.php.net/patch-display.php?bug=55490&patch=ReflectionClass_newInstanceWithoutConstructor&revision=1314264277


Previous Comments:
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[2011-08-23 12:31:07] sebastian@php.net

Description:
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Libraries such as Doctrine 2 and PHPUnit_MockObject (ab)use the unserialize() function
(unserialize(sprintf('O:%d:"%s":0:{}', strlen($name), $name))) to instantiate an
object of a class without invoking the constructor.

It would be nice if the Reflection API provided a clean API for this use case that does not depend
on implementation details of PHP's serializer.



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