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[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing) 4. / 5. dg/parser-reflection ActiveLibrary[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing) dg/parser-reflection ==================== Provides reflection information, based on raw source 1.3.1(8y ago)43.0k↓100%1MITPHPPHP >=5.6.0 Since Nov 22Pushed 6y ago3 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/dg/parser-reflection)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/dg/parser-reflection)[ RSS](/packages/dg-parser-reflection/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelogDependencies (2)Versions (13)Used By (0) Parser Reflection API Library ----------------------------- [](#parser-reflection-api-library) This is fork of great [goaop/parser-reflection](https://github.com/goaop/parser-reflection) library with some modifications. Parser Reflection API library provides a set of classes that extend original internal Reflection classes, but powered by [PHP-Parser](https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser) library thus allowing to create a reflection instance without loading classes into the memory. This library can be used for analysing the source code for PHP versions 5.5, 5.6, 7.0; for automatic proxy creation and much more. 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Installation is quite easy: ``` $ composer require dg/parser-reflection ``` Composer will install the library to your project's `vendor/dg/parser-reflection` directory. Usage ----- [](#usage) ### Initialization [](#initialization) Prior to the first use library can be optionally initialized. If you use Composer for installing packages and loading classes, then you shouldn't worry about initialization, library will be initialized automatically. If project uses a custom autoloader then you should follow the next steps: 1. Create a new class that implements `\Go\ParserReflection\LocatorInterface` 2. Create an instance of that class and pass it to the `ReflectionEngine::init()` method for initial configuration ### Reflecting concrete classes/methods/properties without loading them [](#reflecting-concrete-classesmethodsproperties-without-loading-them) Just use `Go\ParserReflection` package reflection classes like traditional ones: ``` $parsedClass = new \Go\ParserReflection\ReflectionClass(SomeClass::class); var_dump($parsedClass->getMethods()); $parsedMethod = new \Go\ParserReflection\ReflectionMethod(SomeClass::class, 'someMethod'); echo (string)$parsedMethod; ``` Or you can use an additional classes [`ReflectionFile`](docs/reflection_file.md) and [`ReflectionFileNamespace`](docs/reflection_file_namespace.md) to analyse a raw PHP files: ``` $parsedFile = new \Go\ParserReflection\ReflectionFile('SomeClass.php'); $fileNameSpaces = $parsedFile->getFileNamespaces(); // We can iterate over namespaces in the file foreach ($fileNameSpaces as $namespace) { $classes = $namespace->getClasses(); // Iterate over the classes in the namespace foreach ($classes as $class) { echo "Found class: ", $class->getName(), PHP_EOL; // Now let's show all methods in the class foreach ($class->getMethods() as $method) { echo "Found class method: ", $class->getName(), '::', $method->getName(), PHP_EOL; } // ...all properties in the class foreach ($class->getProperties() as $property) { echo "Found class property: ", $class->getName(), '->', $property->getName(), PHP_EOL; } } } ``` How it works? ------------- [](#how-it-works) To understand how library works let's look at what happens during the call to the `new \Go\ParserReflection\ReflectionClass(SomeClass::class)` - `\Go\ParserReflection\ReflectionClass` asks reflection engine to give an AST node for the given class name - Reflection engine asks a locator to locate a filename for the given class - `ComposerLocator` instance asks the Composer to find a filename for the given class and returns this result back to the reflection engine - Reflection engine loads the content of file and passes it to the [PHP-Parser](https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser) for tokenization and processing - PHP-Parser returns an AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) - Reflection engine then analyse this AST to extract specific nodes an wrap them into corresponding reflection classes. Compatibility ------------- [](#compatibility) All parser reflection classes extend PHP internal reflection classes, this means that you can use `\Go\ParserReflection\ReflectionClass` instance in any place that asks for `\ReflectionClass` instance. All reflection methods should be compatible with original ones, providing an except methods that requires object manipulation, such as `invoke()`, `invokeArgs()`, `setAccessible()`, etc. These methods will trigger the autoloading of class and switching to the internal reflection. ### Health Score 34 — LowBetter than 77% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity23 Limited adoption so far Community15 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity65 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 91.7% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. 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