Now I use emulation of Java Annotations. I wrote simple class, that uses
PHPDoc block, gets annotations declarations and their arguments, uses
eval() to convert arguments string to array, then I create instance of
class and assigns parameters. This solution is fine just now, but it
will be very cool to have annotations as language feature. I'm pretty
sure that lots of frameworks would like this feature :-)
Paweł Stradomski wrote:
W liście Marcus Boerger z dnia środa, 20 sierpnia 2008:
Hello Volodymyr,
Basically there is no need for annotations in PHP unlike there is in Python
for instance. However, while the following work:
php -r 'class T { const C=42; var $p=T::C; } var_dump(new T);'
php -r 'class T { const C=42; const D=T::C; } var_dump(new T);
the next two do not:
php -r 'class T { const C=42; var $p=T::C + 1; } var_dump(new T);'
php -r 'class T { const C=42; const D=T::C + 1; } var_dump(new T);
So you might want to have full support for evaluated consts/default values.
I don't really get your point. Annotations are not about constant values, but
about adding arbitrary attributes to classes and methods/functions.
A simple use case (in pseudocode):
class MyController extends BaseController {
// www.example.com/index
@allow('any')
@method('get')
public function index() {
}
// www.example.com/comment
@allow('any')
@method('post')
public function comment() {
}
// www.example.com/admin
@allow('admin')
@method('get')
public function admin() {
}
}
class BaseController {
public function _execute() {
$action = $this-parseTheUrl();
$method = new ReflectionMethod($this, $action);
if ($method-annotations('method') != $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']) {
return $this-methodNotAllowed();
} elseif (!
$this-currentUser-hasPrivilege($method-annotations('allow')) {
return $this-forbidden();
} else {
return $this-$action();
}
}
}
Python does not need annotations, as functions can have arbitrary attribute
set:
def a():
pass
a.x = 5
It also has very powerful mechanism of decorators, which are basically
higher-order functions applied to functions on their definition, but I don't
think Volodymyr asks for so much.
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