Re: [PECL-DEV] extension: phpdoc support and extensions - Feedback requested

hi,

Quick quersion, have you looked at
http://pecl.php.net/package/docblock? It could make sense to improve
it instead of creating a new extension.

Cheers,

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:12 AM, BGHosting.de - power for games
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
>
> I am Martin Eisengardt, and I would like to share an extension. It will be
> simply called "aop" in future. Currently it has another name because the
> code was originally planned as part of our private commercial extension.
>
> The extension "aop" will provide two features. First of all there will be
> support to read and parse the phpdoc from classes/functions and allow php
> extensions to register those with additional phpdoc. However the php builtin
> reflection already allows us to get the phpdoc for several entities. But the
> phpdoc will only be returned as a string. The extension "aop" will parse the
> phpdoc on demand and provide additional methods: hasTag/ getTag/
> getRegularDoc.
>
> Why do we need this? The main feature of the extension is native support for
> aspect oriented programming. For details on aspect orientied programming see
> the description of the flow3 developer group:
> http://flow3.typo3.org/documentation/manuals/flow3/flow3.aopframework/
> Flow3 introduces aspect oriented programming at php level withou any need of
> additional extensions. But there are some limitations on the flow3 solution:
> * During development time it is very slow (mainly because of deactivated
> caching)
> * You are not able to create aspects for preloaded/builtin classes.
> * You are not able to create aspects for functions.
> The reason why reflection extensions are needed is the way flow3 provides
> aop. Flow3 uses special phpdoc tags like "@aspect". In order to enable aop
> on extension level we need the reflection feature.
> However that is different from the java solution (AspectJ) which makes
> extensions to the java language itself.
>
> The current task is to do some refactoring on the reflection feature. And it
> still needs to be renamed to the new name "aop". Target versions will be
>>=5.3. The used namespaces will be "\aop" and "\aop\reflection"
> The aop feature currently causes some seg faults so I did not add it to the
> svn yet.
> And yes, it will need many testcases :-)
>
> svn access:
> http://srv.bghosting.de/svn/bgh/branches/bgh-typo3/extensions/src/
> Username: pecl
> password: anonymous
>
>
> For now I would like to get your feedback. Should this extension become part
> of pecl once it reaches beta?
>
>
> Ciao
> Martin
>
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