RE: [PHP-DEV] SOAP Question re: Class Mapping & Constructors

Hi Matt, During SOAP envelope deserialization, objects are created indirectly. So constructors are not called (constructor may need arguments). This is not a bug. Thanks. Dmitry. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Friedman [mailto:matt.friedman@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:49 PM > To: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-DEV] SOAP Question re: Class Mapping & Constructors > > > Hi, > > We are using the built-in SOAP extension. > > From the docs: > $server = new SoapClient("books.wsdl", array('classmap' => > array('book' => "MyBook"))); > > Soap server will return a complex data type 'book'. The data > fields for book will be mapped to the php class' data fields > in MyBook. It seems that the constructor for MyBook is never > called (according to our tests). The data fields are mapped > somehow internally. > > If I want MyBook to be much more than just a data container, > then I can foresee that I will often want/need a constructor > but __construct is not called. > > Could this be considered a bug? Any thoughts? > > -- > -- Matt Friedman > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >