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Re: out of sheer curiosity... [message #177600 is a reply to message #177573] Tue, 10 April 2012 16:54 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
M. Strobel is currently offline  M. Strobel
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Am 10.04.2012 13:28, schrieb Thomas Mlynarczyk:
> M. Strobel schrieb:
>
>> Now PDO comes in. When getting a query result as object your constructor is called
>> *after* the properties are set.
>
> Really? That would be very strange indeed.
>
> [minutes later]
> I just tested it and it is indeed as you state. Thanks for pointing that out -- is
> this documented?
>
>> I found it quite annoying to have an exception from the rule. But thinking more about
>> it I found out they had a choice of either calling __construct() after setting the
>> data, or to define another magic method like __pdoconstruct() to give the programmer
>> a chance to adapt the init process to the data.
>
> I don't quite follow you here. Why did they have no choice? I don't see why they
> (c|sh)ould not call the constructor before setting the data. After all, that would be
> the only logical and sensible thing to do. If you would do this "manually", you would
> do it like this:
>
> foreach ( $rows as $row ):
> $item = new MyClass( 'foo', 'bar' );
> foreach ( $row as $name => $value ):
> $item->$name = $value;
> endforeach;
> $result[] = $item;
> endforeach;
>

Meanwhile I have more ideas about choices.

The correct way would have been to pass the row to the constructor. This would have
required a matching parameter definition for the constructor, and the corresponding
code, quite error prone.

In your example above the problem is if you need to do more init work on the data you
need an extra method call. With the implemented solution you just have to know that
the constructor is called after setting the vars, and you can detect it, testing the
unique key or so, but need not do so if you don't care.

> And I guess it would be impossible to do it the other way round (first setting data,
> then calling constructor). The setting of the data can be controlled using the magic
> __set() method, so there's no need for __pdoconstruct(), if I understand you correctly.

Are you aware of the fact that __set() is not called for defined variables? Test:
<?php
class Upset {
public $var1;
function __set($n, $v) {
echo "setting variable $n to: $v\n";
$this->$n = $v;
}
}
$c = new Upset();
$c->var1 = 'Try this';
$c->another = ' and this ';
echo "Values are now $c->var1 $c->another\n";
------------------- Result: ----
setting variable another to: and this
Values are now Try this and this


> A more intelligent approach may have been to define an interface which any "result
> row" class must implement and which defines a method like setData( $rowAsArray ). Or
> maybe even better: make use of the existing __set_state() magic method.

The rationale (or use case) of __set_state() is a mystery to me.

Maybe they did not want to ask too much from PHP programmers...

/Str.

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