Bug #71416 [Com]: Reflection for ReflectionMethod::invoke considers second parameter as required

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71416&edit=1 ID: 71416 Comment by: ondrej at mirtes dot cz Reported by: ondrej at mirtes dot cz Summary: Reflection for ReflectionMethod::invoke considers second parameter as required Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Reflection related Operating System: all PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I still think it's a bug, because the PHP reflection (in versions from 5.6.0 to 7.0.2) returns that the second parameter is not optional (so it's required) and that it's not variadic. But according to the documentation of the method (https://secure.php.net/manual/en/reflectionmethod.invoke.php), it can be invoked with only just one parameter - the object. As the method can be invoked with 1 to infinite number of parameters, I think the reflection of this method reports wrong information. I already reported two inconsistencies in PHP reflection (https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71077, https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70960) which were acknowledged and fixed so I think this case is another of such inconsistencies. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-02-02 11:57:22] krakjoe@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 You appear to be looking at the HHVM output, the PHP output is consistent across all the versions we care about. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-01-19 20:37:41] ondrej at mirtes dot cz The test script has run here: https://3v4l.org/PXYvm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-01-19 20:36:57] ondrej at mirtes dot cz Description: ------------ ReflectionMethod::invoke accepts one required parameter (the object) and then zero or more parameters that should be passed to the invoked method as stated in the documentation: https://secure.php.net/manual/en/reflectionmethod.invoke.php But the reported parameters by reflection are not consistent with that. It does not consider the second parameter as variadic and it considers it as required. I expect the second parameter to be reported as optional and as variadic. Test script: --------------- <?php $ref = new ReflectionClass('ReflectionMethod'); foreach ($ref->getMethod('invoke')->getParameters() as $parameter) { var_dump($parameter->getName()); var_dump($parameter->isOptional()); var_dump($parameter->isVariadic()); var_dump('---'); } Expected result: ---------------- string(6) "object" bool(false) bool(false) string(3) "---" string(4) "args" bool(true) bool(true) string(3) "---" Actual result: -------------- string(6) "object" bool(false) bool(false) string(3) "---" string(4) "args" bool(false) bool(false) string(3) "---" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71416&edit=1