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sebastian/shaku
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Tool to automatically generate type-safe Collection and CollectionIterator classes

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Shaku, the Collection Generator
===============================

[](#shaku-the-collection-generator)

`shaku` can automatically generate type-safe `Collection` and `CollectionIterator` classes.

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

[](#installation)

The recommended way to use this tool is a [PHP Archive (PHAR)](https://php.net/phar):

```
$ wget https://phar.phpunit.de/shaku.phar

$ php shaku.phar --version
```

Furthermore, it is recommended to use [Phive](https://phar.io/) for installing and updating the tool dependencies of your project.

Alternatively, you may use [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) to download and install this tool as well as its dependencies. [This is not recommended, though.](https://twitter.com/s_bergmann/status/999635212723212288)

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Consider you have a class named `Value` (declared in `src/Value.php`) and need a type-safe `ValueCollection` for objects of this type:

```
namespace vendor;

final class Value
{
    // ...
}
```

### Generating the `Collection` and `CollectionIterator`

[](#generating-the-collection-and-collectioniterator)

You can use this tool to automatically generate the code for the `ValueCollection` and `ValueCollectionIterator` class like so:

```
$ php shaku.phar --immutable vendor Value src

```

The above results in the generation of the code shown below:

```