Re: Annotations in PHP7

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:51 AM, guilhermeblanco@gmail.com < guilhermeblanco@gmail.com> wrote: > François, > > Doctrine relies on nested annotations for a variety of mapping information. > One example: > > > > http://doctrine-orm.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/association-mapping.html#one-to-many-unidirectional-with-join-table > > Nested annotations are not going to be necessary, because they may be represented by PHP pseudo-syntax (and/or PHP array syntax) <Doctrine_Join( ManyToMany($targetEntity="Phonenumber"), JoinTable($name="users_phonenumbers", $joinColumns=JoinColumn($name="user_id", $referencedColumnName="id")) inverseJoinColumns=JoinColumn($name="phonenumber_id", $referencedColumnName="id", $unique=true))> class User { ... } $r = new ReflectionClass("User"); $ast = $r->getAnnotation("Doctine_Join"); echo $ast->child[0]->child[0]; // "ManyToMany" echo $ast->child[0]->child[1]->child[0]->child[0]; // "$targetEntity" or If we provide API similar to SimpleXML echo $ast[0][0]; // "ManyToMany" echo $ast[0][1][0][0]; // "$targetEntity" Thanks. Dmitry. > []s, > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:33 PM, François Laupretre <francois@php.net> > wrote: > >> Hi Alexander, >> >> > De : Alexander Lisachenko [mailto:lisachenko.it@gmail.com] >> > >> > This RFC consists of two parts: parsing API and parser extension API. >> Last >> > one can be rejected, however it can be perfectly connected with >> annotation >> > RFC (if AST will be used as values) >> >> Parser extension API is great. Go on with it. I have a lot of uses in >> mind. >> >> > As for annotations, general use-case is appreciated. This can be >> extended >> > later in future versions of PHP. Therefore, annotation syntax should >> allow >> > to define key and values. Value can be valid expression (AST? concrete >> > node? compiled value?) or can recursively contain nested annotations. >> >> Can you give a use case for nested annotations ? I don't see what they >> can be needed for. >> >> Thanks >> >> François >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Guilherme Blanco > MSN: guilhermeblanco@hotmail.com > GTalk: guilhermeblanco > Toronto - ON/Canada >