Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Add ReflectionAttribute::getCurrent()

Am 04.05.2026, 22:24:39 schrieb Daniel Scherzer <daniel.e.scherzer@gmail.com >: > Hi internals, > > I'd like to start the discussion for a new RFC about adding a new method, > ReflectionAttribute::getCurrent(), to access the current reflection target > of an attribute. > > * RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reflectionattribute-getcurrent > * Implementation: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/21440 > > Thanks, > -Daniel > Hi Daniel, I am not convinced this is needed. At every call site of $reflector->getAttributes() you could inject the reflector back into the attributes. $attributes = $reflector->getAttributes(); foreach ($attributes as $attribute) { $instance = $attribute->newInstance(); $instance->setReflector($reflector); } If you have a framework, or library, handling attributes, you could introduce an interface: ReflectionAwareAttribute with setReflector() to generalize this: foreach ($attributes as $attribute) { $instance = $attribute->newInstance(); if ($instance instanceof ReflectionAwareAttribute) { $instance->setReflector($reflector); } } The „magic" of this method knowing its context reminds me of internal functions that were en voque in PHP 3/4 times, but for example get.class(null) is not allowed anymore, func_get_args() is now superseded by …$args and so on. IFF we decide this is helpful, could we think about doing this with interface injection like the code above or AttributeUtils? greetings Benjamin