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jms/metadata
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Class/method/property metadata management in PHP

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Metadata is a library for class/method/property metadata management in PHP
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[](#metadata-is-a-library-for-classmethodproperty-metadata-management-in-php)

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This library provides some commonly needed base classes for managing metadata for classes, methods and properties. The metadata can come from many different sources (annotations, YAML/XML/PHP configuration files).

The metadata classes are used to abstract away that source and provide a common interface for all of them.

Usage
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[](#usage)

The library provides three classes that you can extend to add your application specific properties, and flags: `ClassMetadata`, `MethodMetadata`, and `PropertyMetadata`

After you have added, your properties in sub-classes, you also need to add `DriverInterface` implementations which know how to populate these classes from the different metadata sources.

Finally, you can use the `MetadataFactory` to retrieve the metadata::

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