Hello Wez,
Monday, May 28, 2007, 5:33:37 PM, you wrote:
> Hello,
> This weekend I've been building an Objective-C runtime bridge for PHP.
> This is somewhat like the COM extension in that it is possible to
> dynamically interrogate the Objective-C runtime to determine all the
> interfaces (known as protocols) and classes and map those into PHP.
> (it's also possible to go the other way, but that's not relevant to my
> topic here).
> Now, Objective-C allows one to enumerate static methods defined on
> interfaces, but not in classes. Furthermore, there is something
> vaguely akin to our __call mechanism that allows classes and instances
> to magically handle methods without explicitly defining them in the
> class description.
> What I'd like to be able to do is this:
> $NSApp = NSApplication::sharedApplication();
> but the sharedApplication() static method doesn't appear in the
> enumerated list of methods in the runtime, so I can't simply add it to
> my function table when I register the NSApplication class.
> So what I need to do is this to work around the issue:
> $NSApp = NSApplication::__staticInvoke('sharedApplication');
> This can ask the runtime if "sharedApplication" is a static method and
> invoke it appropriately.
> This wouldn't be especially bad if it was only for one or two classes
> that were no often used, but it crops up a lot.
> I'd like to see an additional callback in the zend_class_entry that
> operates similarly to the existing get_method callback, but that takes
> the zend_class_entry instead of the object pointer as its parameter.
> That would enable more natural syntax for this application, and likely
> other bridging extensions too.
> Thoughts?
yes :-)
Along with __call and what you propose, we're missing:
__method_exists(string $name, [bool $static = false]);
Best regards,
Marcus
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