Hi internals, It is common for attributes to be used as markers, and just like a marker interface has 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 attributes 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, would I need to submit an RFC or would a pull request on php-src 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
