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Reflection API

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Reflection
==========

[](#reflection)

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### This library is a type safe wrapper for PHP Reflection API.

[](#this-library-is-a-type-safe-wrapper-for-php-reflection-api)

This library is born with the purpose to solve the problem of type safety in PHP Reflection API. Reflection API is a very powerful tool, but presents some issues.

For example:

- the original `ReflectionClass::getConstant` return `false` if the constant does not exist or if the constant is equal to `false`.
- `ReflectionClass::newInstance` return a generic object, but it is possible to know the type of the object.
- New interfaces are added to the Reflection API in different PHP versions, so it is not possible to use them in a cross-version way.

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

[](#installation)

web-fu/reflection is available on [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/web-fu/reflection) and can be installed using [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/).

```
composer require web-fu/reflection
```

> Requires PHP 8.0 or newer.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

This wrapper try to use the same names of the original Reflection API, but with a different namespace.

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