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php-etl/metadata
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Describe data structures, to auto-configure and handle data transformation and data manipulation.

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PHP Data Structures Meta
========================

[](#php-data-structures-meta)

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What is it about?
-----------------

[](#what-is-it-about)

This component aims at describing data structures in order to help other packages to auto-configure and handle data transformation and data manipulation.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

To use this package in your application, require it via composer:

```
composer require php-etl/metadata
```

Run the tests
-------------

[](#run-the-tests)

There are PHPSpec tests declared in this package to ensure everything is running fine.

```
phpspec run
```

Use this package to read metadata of existing code
--------------------------------------------------

[](#use-this-package-to-read-metadata-of-existing-code)

In order to read the metadata of existing PHP code, you may use the automatic type guesser. It can be initialised with the following code:

```