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Request #81474 Make ReflectionEnum and related class non-final
Submitted: 2021-09-24 11:28 UTC Modified: -
Votes:4
Avg. Score:4.5 ± 0.9
Reproduced:4 of 4 (100.0%)
Same Version:4 (100.0%)
Same OS:3 (75.0%)
From: ondrej at mirtes dot cz Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Reflection related
PHP Version: 8.1.0RC2 OS: N/A
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2021-09-24 11:28 UTC] ondrej at mirtes dot cz 
Description:
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Library Roave/BetterReflection (https://github.com/Roave/BetterReflection) has a goal of providing runtime reflection compatible API for PHP reflection classes in the Adapter namespace: https://github.com/Roave/BetterReflection/tree/5.0.x/src/Reflection/Adapter

This feature is prominently used by PHPStan, and maybe other open-source users as well.

In order for BetterReflection library to be able to be used in place of the official API via polymorphism, it needs to have the ability to extend core reflection classes like ReflectionClass and ReflectionMethod. It has been doing that successfully.

PHP 8.1 introduces ReflectionEnum class, and unfortunately it's final. This change request is about making this class non-final, and also all classes accessible through that one like ReflectionEnumPureCase, ReflectionEnumBackedCase, and ReflectionEnumUnitCase.

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 [2021-09-25 07:01 UTC] kukulich at kukulich dot cz 
There's also a problem with ReflectionAttribute. It would be perfect to remove the final for it too. I think it could be done even in PHP 8 because the change is backward compatible.
 [2021-09-26 14:21 UTC] ocramius@php.net 
Ref: https://github.com/Roave/BetterReflection/issues/789
 [2021-09-27 14:39 UTC] nikic@php.net 
The following pull request has been associated:

Patch Name: Make Reflection(Attribute|Enum|EnumBackedCase) non-final
On GitHub:  https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/7520
Patch:      https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/7520.patch
 [2021-09-28 07:38 UTC] git@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of nikic
Revision: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/f2ae8a33578f21d29d3bbc81d146fe93dd616506
Log: Fix bug #81474: Make Reflection(Attribute|Enum|EnumBackedCase) non-final
 [2021-09-28 07:38 UTC] git@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed
 [2021-10-04 12:41 UTC] git@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of sasezaki (author) and nikic (committer)
Revision: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/e286313fa7a134c382e486566c52a0ff583fb2d1
Log: Fix bug #81474: Make ReflectionAttribute non-final
 
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