Bug #68041 [Nab]: Interfaces - Interfaced instance can access undefined methods

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68041&edit=1 ID: 68041 User updated by: sosingus at gmail dot com Reported by: sosingus at gmail dot com Summary: Interfaces - Interfaced instance can access undefined methods Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: *General Issues Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.4.32 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Hi johannes, why do you think it is not a bug? I'm not saying interfaces should be used this way, but there is a great chance that by mistake a method that does not belong to interface could be used, and everything will work until another class implementing same interface (without additional method/s) would be used instead in same code. Then code would not work any more and there is no way to predict this. I might say Interface is like a Facade to a class exposing only defined methods, nothing else. I hope U understand my point of view. Interface needs to be more strict. Languages that compile code prior being run, would not compile such code at all. Please at least think of it from developer perspective. I can't really get into patching php core code, sorry, I don't have time. I just wanted to notify someone about this as I believe it is a bug/core design issue/ and it would mean a lot to have at least RuntimeException on wrong interface usage like sample code I provided. Thanks. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-09-18 11:13:46] johannes@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-09-18 09:47:33] sosingus at gmail dot com Description: ------------ If we use interfaced instance to access a method not defined in interface itself, code will work! Expected is RuntimeException of some kind. Same applies for using parent class on instance of some subclass. If anyone cares I'll serach and create similar bug report for classes. This behavior can lead to serious problems in any serious OO code. Worst of all it cannot be predicted in any way. I think this is a system issue and probably exists since the OO beginning in php. Test script: --------------- <?php interface TestInterface { public function printMe(); } class TestClass implements TestInterface { public function printMe() { print "1\n"; } public function printMeToo() { print "2\n"; } } function testInterfaceShouldFail(TestInterface $instance) { $instance->printMe(); $instance->printMeToo(); } testInterfaceShouldFail(new TestClass()); Expected result: ---------------- raised/thrown RuntimeException Actual result: -------------- 1 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68041&edit=1