On Sat, 15 Oct 2022 at 13:14, Gianni Gentile
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What are your thoughts on introduce the `(AnyType)` cast to instantiate
> objects from associative array (or object properties also)?
It seems a pretty bad idea.
In particular, it makes for hard to maintain code as it doesn't give a
place for error checking to occur.
Though I do actually use that pattern in code. Below is a trait that
accomplishes it that should only be used in prototype code. Having it
as a trait means at least I can debug through the initialization and
see if it's missing properties from the array,
But in general, you'd really need to make a strong argument for why it
should be in core, not just why anyone would be against it.
cheers
Dan
Ack
trait FromArray
{
/**
* @param array $data
* @return static
* @throws \ReflectionException
*/
public static function fromArray(array $data): self
{
$reflection = new \ReflectionClass(__CLASS__);
$instance = $reflection->newInstanceWithoutConstructor();
foreach ($instance as $key => &$property) {
$property = $data[$key];
}
return $instance;
}
}
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