Re: New handler for retrieving properties when object is serialized

> > > This means one has to touch every extension using those hooks. "more use > cases in the future" means having to do this over and over again, for a > feature I see little benefit in. > I don't want to change get_properties. That would break too many extensions. The idea is to create something like HashTable *get_special_properties(zval *object, int purpose, int *is_tmp TSRMLS_DC) This would replace get_debug_info so the number of hooks would stay the same. The only extensions that would need to be changed are the ones that use get_debug_info. The purposes could be debug, serialize, array_casting. If there is a new use case, you would just add new purpose and wouldn't have to change anything. > > I haven't looked deeper but isn't your whole point to change the > serialized representation of the object, to include all data "properly"? > > No the whole point was returning the same properties but only if the object is serialized or debugged. Deeper explanation is in this thread: http://news.php.net/php.internals/68305 Jakub