Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53357&edit=1
ID: 53357 Updated by: johan...@php.net Reported by: jonas dot jones at gmx dot ch Summary: Problem with getMethod of ReflectionClass -Status: Open +Status: Assigned Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Reflection related PHP Version: 5.3.3 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: johannes Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: The reflection API is supposed to tell "the truth". Extending the ReflectionClass::getMethod() method is therefore no option. The only thing I can imagine is hanving ReflectionMethod::invoke() to accept a string, instead of an instance, as first parameter for defining the scope. I will look into that. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-19 16:31:22] jonas dot jones at gmx dot ch Description: ------------ --- >From manual page: http://www.php.net/reflectionclass.getmethod --- If you use getMethod() on a ReflecitonClass Object, for a class, that inherits its method from a parent class, you get a ReflectionMethod Object, that links to the parent class. There is no possibility to get a ReflectionMethod Object, that is connected to the class linked to the ReflectionClass Object. This beheaviour is not nice, if you want to use the ReflectionMethod Object to call a static method. We could not figure out a possibility to call the method on the child class. A second argument on getMethod() would be nice. It could be a flag, wether getMethod should return a ReflectionMethod object, which is connected to the class where the method was defined or an object which is connected to the class, that was used for the ReflectionClass. Test script: --------------- class ParentClass { public static function foo(){ echo get_called_class(); } } class ChildClass extends MainClass { } $class = new ReflectionClass('ChildClass'); $method = $class->getMethod('foo'); $method->invoke(null); // outputs ParentClass instead of expected ChildClass Expected result: ---------------- ChildClass Actual result: -------------- ParentClass ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53357&edit=1
