Re: [php-internals] SplFileObject interface

Hello Giorgio, you think to complex. Just use user streams and be done. marcus Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 8:17:06 PM, you wrote: > Hello everyone, I had a thought about Standard Php Library extension > and his classes and I'd like to expose an idea to see if it can have a > real utility. > Spl has interfaces like Traversable and Iterator that can be > implemented by programmers classes. It also has some class of basic > use like SplFileObject that provide access to the filesystem. > However, unit testing rules, which make it differs from integration > testing, says that testing a class shouldn't affect filesystems, > database and external resources. So what I propose is the creation of > an interface (if it does not already exist in some place) for > SplFileObject: some name like SplFileInterface or iSplFile, using > preferred naming conventions. > That could make a developer be able to do something like: > class Logger > { > public function __construct(SplFileInterface $file) > { > .... > making it easier to mock an object to test the class in isolation but > preserving type verification so that a NULL passed to constructor > produces a strict|fatal error. > Note that someone could also implements SplFileInterface with a > process similar to fopen url wrapper, making an external > resource|stream available as a file. I think it will be a clear way to > extend Php object orientation, now that Spl is doing that so much. > I'm looking for some comments and insults on this idea... > Greetings, > -- > Giorgio Sironi > Piccolo Principe & Ossigeno Scripter > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ossigeno Best regards, Marcus