Bug #76737 [NEW]: Unserialized reflection objects are broken, but they shouldn't be serializable

From: nicolas dot grekas+php at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: 7.1Git-2018-08-13 (Git) Package: Reflection related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Unserialized reflection objects are broken, but they shouldn't be serializable Description: ------------ When serializing any Reflector instance, but also ReflectionType and ReflectionGenerator (which are the only two classes of the reflection extension not implementing Reflector BTW), then the unserialized value is unusable and throws Error: "Internal error: Failed to retrieve the reflection object" on any method calls. This is legit, but instead of this late error, these should not be serializable in the first place. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76737&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76737&r=mysqlcfg