Hi internals, It is common attributes to be used as markers. Just like a marker interface with no methods, such attributes don’t have any parameter.
Examples from Symfony: - #[Ignore] indicating that a property should be skipped in a serialization contextl - #[Exclude] telling the dependency injection container that a given class should be skipped from automatic service registration From Doctrine ORM: - #[Id] to tell which property of en entity class should be mapped as primary key Those are meant to opt in/out some behavior through detection only. But with the current API, such code needs to call `getAttributes()` while it doesn't care about the returned ReflectionAttribute instances. Hence I’m wondering if we could add a `hasAttribute()` method to the reflectors that are targetable by attributes. Does that make sense? If it does, do I need to open an RFC for that feature or is a pull request be enough? Anyway, I’d be happy to work on the implementation as a first contribution to PHP. Looking forward to your feedback. Thanks. Robin Robin Chalas Principal Engineer @Les-Tilleuls.coop 03 66 72 43 94 ro...@les-tilleuls.coop 82 Rue Winston Churchill - 59160 Lomme
