Hi. With pecl/http (DEV-2 branch) and the Functional extension (on github) both creating namespaces within the extension, I think there is a requirement for a mechanism to allow an extension to record the namespace(s) that it has, in a similar fashion to how functions and classes are known to core.
On the surface, the namespace seems to be consumed by the class name or function name. ReflectionClass and ReflectionFunciton both have a getNamespaceName() method, but there is no corresponding method for ReflectionExtension, which would need to getNamespaceNames() as an extension could potentially register multiple namespaces - maybe nested ones. In both of these methods, the namespace is simply extracted from the current entity name, but without a way of recording the namespace(s) provided by an extension. I think the following should exist array get_declared_namespaces ( [ bool $categorize = false ] ) Returns the namespaces currently defined. If categorized, the namespaces are categorised by the extension that loads them or with a key of 'user' for user defined namespaces. and array ReflectionExtension::getNamespaces() Returns the namespaces for the extension being reflected. And I think that phpinfo() should output a "Registered Namespaces" right at the top of the page, alongside the Registered Streams. But, trawling all the classes and functions, extracting and aggregating the namespace would really not seem to be the way to go. And that wouldn't take into account the user defined namespaces. So, (unless I'm mistaken and missing something), an extension needs to record its namespaces somewhere along with userland namespaces. Initially, I thought that putting a pointer to a list in zend_module_entry would be enough to allow the php core code to pick it up from the extension, but that would need to be at a suitable version change rather than mid-cycle. But really, this is out of my depth now. Maybe a mentor/mentee would be useful here. Regards, Richard. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY : bit.ly/lFnVea -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
