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Re: [pdt-dev] code assist development
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On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Michael Spector wrote:
Hi Philip,
We do a real black magic, when generating stubs for all native PHP
elements.
First of all, we use reflection mechanism for building a multi-array
of all existing elements. Then we refer to the PHPDoc for the
documentation on elements that were found. The problems that we run
into are usually:
1. Reflection doesn't contain needed information (class properties,
namespaces, etc...)
2. PHPDoc XML is not standard in many cases (constant values, etc...)
3. Missing PHPDoc :)
You can look at this script for better understanding of what's
happening: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.pdt/plugins/org.eclipse.php.core/Resources/language/generate.php?root=Tools_Project&view=markup
Greetings Michael,
We're looking now, and hope to offer tools to make this easier fairly
soon. There are a few headaches like dealing with functions that are
both OOP and procedural, and a few others, but overall I think we can
provide a cleaner solution that parses generated XML as to not worry
about entity replacements. Moacir has been working on an IDE package
for PhD. Our build system is named PhD, the system that turns DocBook
into magic.
What is your policy regarding which extensions get included? It
appears to be "all that we can possibly find" which is understandable
but maybe an official policy exists.
And while running generate.php I stumbled upon a bug in PHP. The
get_defined_constants(true) internal constants are labeled as 'Core'
instead of 'internal' in PHP 5.3.0. And while some feel 'Core' is
better (more consistent, like with Reflection), it appears it'll be
changed back to 'internal' so anyway that's that.
Regards,
Philip