Reflection Laravel Package

• Compatibility with brick/varexporter versions 0.6 and 0.7 (#6 by @jorisvaesen)

💥 Breaking changes

• classes ReflectionTools and ImportResolver are now final

✨ Improvements

• removed dependency on abandoned doctrine/annotations library

💥 Breaking changes

• Minimum PHP version is now 8.1

✨ Compatibility improvements

• Compatibility with brick/varexporter version 0.5

✨ New features

• Support for ReflectionClassConstant as Reflector in ImportResolver

✨ Compatibility improvements

• Compatibility with brick/varexporter version 0.4
• Compatibility with doctrine/annotations version 2.x

✨ New features

• Support for PHP 8.2 DNF types in ReflectionTools::exportFunctionSignature()

💥 Breaking changes

• Minimum PHP version is now 8.0
• The following methods have been removed:
  • ReflectionTools::getParameterTypes()
  • ReflectionTools::getPropertyTypes()
• ReflectionTools::exportFunction() has been renamed to exportFunctionSignature()
• ReflectionTools::exportFunctionParameters() is no longer part of the public API

✨ New features

• ReflectionTools::exportFunctionSignature():
  • Support for self, static and never types
  • Support for union types and intersection types
  • Support for functions returning references

🐛 Bug fixes

• ReflectionTools::exportFunctionSignature():
  • constants are now properly exported with a leading \
  • nullable types are now always output with a leading ?

💄 Cosmetic changes

• ReflectionTools::exportFunctionSignature():
  • Null values in parameter default values are now output as null instead of NULL
  • Arrays in parameter default values are now exported with short array syntax, on a single line
  • There is no more space between closing parenthesis and colon, i.e. ): int instead of ) : int

🐛 Bug fix

• ReflectionTools::exportFunction() returned a ?-nullable type for untyped parameters (#2)

✨ New features

• PHP 8 compatibility 🚀
• ReflectionTools::getPropertyTypes() now supports PHP 8 union types
• ReflectionTools::getParameterTypes() now supports reflection & PHP 8 union types

💥 Breaking changes

• ReflectionTools::getParameterTypes() now reads types from reflection first
• ReflectionTools::getPropertyTypes() and getParameterTypes():
  • always return class names as FQCN (including namespace)
  • always return built-in types as lowercase
• ReflectionTools::getFunctionParameterTypes() has been removed
• ReflectionTools::getPropertyClass() has been removed

⬆️ Dependency upgrade

• For compatibility with PHP 8, this version requires doctrine/annotations: ^1.10.4

Minimum PHP version is now 7.2. No other changes.

Fix support for typed properties in ReflectionTools::getPropertyClass().

Support for typed properties (PHP 7.4) in ReflectionTools::getPropertyTypes().

Improvement

ReflectionTools::getClassMethods() and getClassProperties() now always respect the hierarchical order, returning methods and properties from parent classes first.

Internal refactoring. Several methods now have a simpler implementation.

Minimum PHP version is now 7.1.

ReflectionTools::exportFunction() now supports scalar type hints, return types, nullable types and variadics.

First beta release.