Re: Proposal: retrieve line, filena me and if user defined for ReflectionAttribute

From: Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:24:37 +0000
Subject: Re: Proposal: retrieve line, filena me and if user defined for ReflectionAttribute
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On 5 April 2024 15:09:42 CEST, Joel Wurtz <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>Like a lot of libraries, we offer the possibility to configure behaviors
>with Attributes. However in some cases it's wrongly configured by the user
>and this wrong configuration cannot be detected on the attribute
>constructor but afterwards.
>
>In this case we may want to pinpoint which attribute (in which file and at
>which line) cause this bad configuration. Since there was no method to
>retrieve those information in the ReflectionAttribute I proposed a PR
>https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/13889 to
>add those informations.
>
>I do believe this will allow better DX for end user when correctly used,

Would it make sense to not only add this for ReflectionAttribute, but also Function and/or others?

Functions have a range of lines associate with them. Could Attributes have that too?

cheers
Derick 


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