Re: ReflectionFile missing

From my point of view, the concept of a "file" has become semantically more important, and increasingly relevant to Reflection, with the latest PHP features added in the past couple of years. I can see what you mean though - it's probably not a small effort, and there are probably more important aspects of PHP that need attention... 2012/1/29 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de> > Hi, > > > On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 18:51 -0500, Rasmus Schultz wrote: > > I realized the other day that ReflectionFile is missing from the > Reflection > > API. > > As is ReflectionNamespace and some others one might think about. In the > end it boils down to the fact that we don't have structures internally > representing them as for PHP there is no need to keep the data and then > we're restrictive in adding such meta-data just for the purpose of > reflection. Mind that we'd have to keep all that in memory and opcode > caches have to copy it around etc. in the end the consensus was: the > effort needed doesn't seem worthwhile. > > The alternative would be to "emulate" it, something like > > class ReflectionFile { > private $filename; > private $classes = array(); > private $functions = array(); > > private initFunctions($filename) { > foreach(get_defined_functions()['user'] as $f) { > $rf = new ReflectionFunction($f); > if ($rf->getFilename() == $filename) { > $this->functions[$rf->getName()] = $rf; > } > } > } > > private initClasses($filename) { /* ... */ } > > public __construct($filename) { > $this->filename = realpath($filename); > $this->initFunctions($this->filename); > /* ... */ > } > > public getFunctions() { > return $this->functions; > } > > public getFunctionNames() { > return array_keys($this->functions); > } > > /* ... */ > } > > But that feels more like a hack than a solution, too. > > johannes > > PS. Mind that the example you've given even works on files not included > by parsing files, whereas internal reflection provides information what > actually is available from engine point of view ... > >