Hi Dmitry, It is understandable that you don't know what the arguments might be. But I would rather have the constructor called with no arguments, or with just the std object `book` passed to the constructor instead of no constructor at all.
Is it possible? Thanks, Matt. On 12/13/05, Dmitry Stogov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > During SOAP envelope deserialization, objects are created indirectly. > So constructors are not called (constructor may need arguments). > > This is not a bug. > > Thanks. Dmitry. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matt Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:49 PM > > To: internals@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP-DEV] SOAP Question re: Class Mapping & Constructors > > > > > > Hi, > > > > We are using the built-in SOAP extension. > > > > From the docs: > > $server = new SoapClient("books.wsdl", array('classmap' => > > array('book' => "MyBook"))); > > > > Soap server will return a complex data type 'book'. The data > > fields for book will be mapped to the php class' data fields > > in MyBook. It seems that the constructor for MyBook is never > > called (according to our tests). The data fields are mapped > > somehow internally. > > > > If I want MyBook to be much more than just a data container, > > then I can foresee that I will often want/need a constructor > > but __construct is not called. > > > > Could this be considered a bug? Any thoughts? > > > > -- > > -- Matt Friedman > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- -- Matt Friedman -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php