[TYPO3-mvc] idea: "magic" accessors via autoloader

["Christian Müller [kitsunet]"]

On 28.05.2010 10:18, Martin Kutschker wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Now that we have an autoloader we can ship load any class we want to for the one that has been asked
> for. IIRC the AOP framework works that way. Instead of loading the real class it will return a
> generated proxy class.
>
> But why use a proxy if you can augment the real class? Changing a class on-the-fly is no big thing
> using PHP's tokenizer.
>
> So the idea is to create yet another annotation for properties that tells the autoloader to create
> default accessors if none are present in the source code.
>
> eg
>
> class Foo {
>
>    /**
>     * @accessors set get
>     */
>    protected $bar;
>
> }
>
> will be turned into this code:
>
> class Foo {
>
>    protected $bar;
>
>    public function setBar($value) {
>      $this->bar = $value;
>    }
>
>    public function getBar($value) {
>      return $this->bar;
>    }
>
> }
>
> No funny magic with __call and yet no tedious type work.
>
> But what does this mean for unit testing? Can it cope with the autoloader? Or does it need a special
> loader as well that does the generation magic just for the tests?
>
> Masi

I also proposed to have magic acccessors with annotations, I just had 
not thought about the implementation, and this way is a great idea! 
Maybe it could even be a stream wrapper? Then it should be no problem 
for unit tests?

Chrisitian