Release notes from Reflection

6.4.4

2025-11-25T21:22:06Z

Fix issue with self referenced constants.

Full Changelog: 6.4.3...6.4.4

6.4.3

2025-11-25T21:05:21Z

What's Changed

Fix class resolve in expression containing a constant fetch.
Bump phpdocumentor/type-resolver from 1.11.1 to 1.12.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #706

Full Changelog: 6.4.2...6.4.3

6.4.2

2025-11-23T13:25:27Z

What's Changed

Resolve issue with expressions where some default values were resolved incorrectly as FQSEN, now null will result in a Null_ type and booleans will result in True_ or False_. other values remain unchanged.

Use type resolver to resolve types in expressions by @jaapio in #703
Add support for php 8.5 by @jaapio in #695

Full Changelog: 6.4.1...6.4.2

6.4.1

2025-11-12T21:51:34Z

What's Changed

Thanks to @bshaffer for reporting #697

Fix allow zero as expression value. by @jaapio in #698

Full Changelog: 6.4.0...6.4.1

6.4.0

2025-11-12T20:49:27Z

What's Changed

This version adds support for more complex expressions in method arguments. The expressions allow users of this library to extract type information from default values of arguments.

Reworking expression strings into Expression objects by @mvriel and @jaapio in #307

Full Changelog: 6.3.0...6.4.0

6.3.0

2025-06-06T13:50:35Z

What's Changed

This version adds support to detect virtual properties.

Find references to property if virtual by @jaapio in #672

Full Changelog: 6.2.1...6.3.0

6.2.1

2025-05-30T18:46:05Z

What's Changed

Version 6.2.0 contained a wrong named class for Asymmetric visibility. This version renames the class, which should be considered a backward compatibility break. But because the release is rather new I do accept this for a patch release.

Rename Async to Asymmetric by @jaapio in #670

Full Changelog: 6.2.0...6.2.1

6.2.0

2025-05-30T18:43:26Z

What's Changed

In this version we introduced support for asymmetric visibility and property hooks.

Add asymmetric visibility support by @jaapio in #663
Add property hook support. by @jaapio in #667

Full Changelog: 6.1.0...6.2.0

6.1.0

2024-11-22T15:14:26Z

What's Changed

Added support for php 8.4. This doesn't add any of the new features of php 8.4 but does allow our users to upgrade to php 8.4

Enable php 8.4 to start building for 8.4 by @jaapio in #640

Full Changelog: 6.0.0...6.1.0

6.0.0

2024-05-23T19:56:06Z

6.0.0

In this version we added support for Attributes and improved the way this project can be extended using Reducers. Added support for php 8.3 features and upgraded to version 5 of phpparser.

Attributes

In PHP8 attributes were added to the language. Attributes are great at runtime but kinda hurdle to take in reflection of the code base as we do not load any classes into our runtime. We are just processing your code as it was plain text. This means that attribute classes are not available as classes, but also a lot of information is gone that you would normally have when loading attributes.

In this version we added a way to support reflection of attributes describing the format of the defined attributes and their call parameters. CallParameters have an optional name if named parameters are used in the usage of an attribute. This should give our users enough information to get everything out. More features will be added in the future.

Reducers

During the development of the project we noticed that we were handling similar constructs over and over again. But as we wanted to keep the factories creating the elements decouples we were not able to reuse code. The new concept of Reducer solves this issue. Reducers are post creation strategies that are executed after the factory created an element. Attributes are a good example of extra data that can be added to any kind of code element, the creation of attributes is always the same. Each factory can have a number of reducers and they can be defined per factory.

Removed deprecation

In php 8.2 dynamic properties were deprecated as this project was using dynamic properties to add extra information to the phpparser nodes we needed to change that functionality. The foundation for this change including a forward compatibility option were added in v5.3 and with this new release the deprecation is removed. From now on FQSEN of nodes is only available as a node attribute. If your code contains custom factories replace the the usage of $object->fqsen with $object->getAttribute('fqsen')

phpparser v5

We switched internally to phpparser v5 to ensure this project will keep working with the latest features in php. For normal usecases there won't be any difference. phpparser is still able to process old code back to php 5. But it is no longer possible to switch the parser version when using this project.

Add reducers to factories to support attributes by @jaapio in #477
Upgrade code to php 8.1 by @jaapio in #480
Move parameter building to reducer by @jaapio in #484
Allow phpparser v5 by @jaapio in #554
Upgrade to phpunit 10 by @jaapio in #564

Full Changelog: 5.3.3...6.0.0