Re: [PHP] Reflecting Constants.

On 12 March 2013 14:01, Tomasz Sawicki <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It would seem that without tokenising the class file, I'm sort of
>> stuck with the solution I've got at the moment.
>>
>> Unless anyone has any ideas!
>
>
> I faced similar problem with constants when doing WSDL generator. In my case
> I wanted to extract constant description to include it in WSDL documentation
> section. Unfortunately PHP Reflection API exposes only
> ReflectionClass::getConstants method which doesn't return PHPDoc comments.
>
> My solution was to put following annotation in class PHPDoc for each
> constant in the class:
> @constant CONSTANT_NAME Description of constant.
>
> Of course you need to keep constant names in PHPDoc synchronised with code,
> but in my case this annotation is required for every constant so I get
> notified about any problems with it.
>
> --
> Tomasz Sawicki

This is a good idea. It will allow me to use ReflectionClass->getDocComment()

It does require the constant name to be present

@vanity CONSTANT_NAME LONG_NAME,SHORT_NAME,HUMAN_NAME

I've implemented this and it is working.

I've @todo'd it to refactor if PHP has a ReflectionConstant class at
some stage in the future.

Thanks.


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