Re: Reflection API idea

Hello Jared, hey cool stuff! Any chance you could publish this or make it a PEAR class or put it into the newly created Reflection extension as example? best regards marcus Wednesday, November 23, 2005, 12:50:25 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > This has been do-able in PHP5 for somewhile, (wrote a reflection > browser while ago to show such things) > http://www.ren.dotgeek.org/classbrowser/?class=DOMCdataSection > Jared > >> Here's an idea for the maintainer of the Reflection API, to >> be able to view the class a method is defined in (if not overridden). >> >> >> class Vehicle { >> function go() {} >> function crash() {} >> } >> >> class Car extends Vehicle { >> function crash() {} >> function collectInsurance() {} >> } >> >> class Ford extends Car { >> function fixOrRepairDaily() {} >> } >> >> Reflection::export(new ReflectionClass(Car)); >> >> >> Class [ <user> class Ford extends Car ] { >> >> - Methods [4] { >> Method [ <user> public method fixOrRepairDaily ] { >> } >> >> Method [ <user> public method crash inherited from Car ] { >> } >> >> Method [ <user> public method collectInsurance inherited >> from Car ] { >> } >> >> Method [ <user> public method go inherited from Vehicle ] { >> } >> } >> >> I am developing on a Windows machine so a Unified Patch isn't >> easily attainable (with the tools I have at least). >> >> Psuedo Patch: >> Modify _function_string in zend_reflection_api.c to take a >> zend_class_entry of the reflecting class or NULL if not used >> in a class context. >> Then add the "inherited from" section as below (or however >> you'd like to implement). >> >> string_printf(str, "%s", fptr->common.function_name); if >> (fptr->common.scope && memcmp(fptr->common.scope->name, ce->name)) { >> string_printf(str, " inherited from %s", >> fptr->common.scope->name); } string_printf(str, " ] {\n"); >> >> >> Not sure if this works in all situations, I'll leave that for >> you guys to determine if you think this is useful functionality. >> >> Bob Silva >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To >> unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> Best regards, Marcus