Re: Suggestions for Reflection API

Hello Sebastian, Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 8:55:54 AM, you wrote: > Hi, > I just looked for the first time in months at the Reflection API and > have two suggestions: > 1.) There are a couple of methods that throw an Exception. > I think it would be better to introduce a Reflection_Exception > class that is thrown instead of the standard Exception. > If possible, it might be a good idea to only allow throwing > Reflection_Exception instances to the internal Reflection_* > classes. Have a better look :-) There is already a class 'Reflection_Exception' used for all throw statements, if not it is an oversight. > 2.) getVersion() is currently only declared for Reflection_Extension. > I think it would be nice if we had versioning for classes and > methods available through the Reflection API, too. > This could be achieved, for instance, by either introducing yet > another __-prepended property (const $__version = '1.0.0', for > example) or by using metadata in doc-comments (@version 1.0.0). > This would solve the versioning problem that is currently > discussed on the pear-dev list, IMHO. Reflection does not scan the meta docs. So just incorporate that into the next version of phpDocumentor and be done? regards marcus