Re: Problem with overwriting private property value with ReflectionProperty

Von: Christian Stoller [mailto:stoller@leonex.de], Gesendet: Montag, 19. September 2016 10:27 Betreff: [PHP-DEV] Problem with overwriting private property value with ReflectionProperty > Hi, > > I have spent several hours with a strange problem with reflection. > > There's an object of an external lib with a private field and I > have to overwrite its values. Because there is no public method > I am using ReflectionProperty like this: > > $reflProp = new \ReflectionProperty(Extension::class, 'classes'); > $reflProp->setAccessible(true); > $reflProp->setValue($extension,['new', 'values']); > > var_export($extension->getClasses()); > > The field is of type array and contains several entries. The problem > is, that the private field has not been overwritten by > $reflProp->setValue(). Instead it looked like, the array of > the > private field has been merged with my new array. > > I tried different things but nothing worked. I have tried to create > a small script which could show the problem, but it wasn't reproducible. > > The last thing I tried was, to call > > var_export($reflProp->getValue($extension)); > > instead of > > var_export($extension->getClasses()); > > That returns exactly the correct value. So my question is if somebody > could imagine why $reflProp->getValue() returns the value I > am trying > to set, but accessing the field with an object member method > (getClasses) returns a merged array. > > I am using PHP 5.6.26 (x86, TS) on Windows 10. > > Best regards, > Christian Oh, sorry. I have found the problem now, after trying to overwrite the value with a string instead of an array. The object I had the problem with, has been extended by another class the the getClasses merged the field with another array. Sorry for the noise. Christian Mit freundlichen Gr??en aus Paderborn Christian Stoller Softwareentwicklung LEONEX Internet GmbH Technologiepark 20 33100 Paderborn Tel: 05251-14807-27 Fax: 05251-14807-30 HRB 8694 AG Paderborn Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Stephan Winter ________________________________ Erfolgreiche E-Business L?sungen von LEONEX Erfahren Sie mehr unter www.leonex.de ________________________________