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rfc:token_as_object [2020/02/14 16:22] nikicrfc:token_as_object [2020/03/23 14:06] – Accepted nikic
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   * Date: 2020-02-13   * Date: 2020-02-13
   * Author: Nikita Popov <nikic@php.net>   * Author: Nikita Popov <nikic@php.net>
-  * Status: Under Discussion+  * Status: Accepted
   * Target Version: PHP 8.0   * Target Version: PHP 8.0
   * Implementation: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5176   * Implementation: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5176
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     /**     /**
      * Same as token_get_all(), but returning array of PhpToken.      * Same as token_get_all(), but returning array of PhpToken.
-     * @return PhpToken[]+     * @return static[]
      */      */
     public static function getAll(string $code, int $flags = 0): array;     public static function getAll(string $code, int $flags = 0): array;
          
-    public function __construct(int $id, string $text, int $line = -1, int $pos = -1);+    final public function __construct(int $id, string $text, int $line = -1, int $pos = -1)
 + 
 +    /** Get the name of the token. */ 
 +    public function getTokenName(): ?string; 
 +     
 +    /** 
 +     * Whether the token has the given ID, the given text, 
 +     * or has an ID/text part of the given array. 
 +     *  
 +     * @param int|string|array $kind 
 +     */ 
 +    public function is($kind): bool; 
 + 
 +    /** Whether this token would be ignored by the PHP parser. */ 
 +    public function isIgnorable(): bool;
 } }
 </PHP> </PHP>
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   * The token stores the position in the file, so that consumers don't have to compute and store it separately.   * The token stores the position in the file, so that consumers don't have to compute and store it separately.
  
-Finally (and this is the real motivation here), the tokens take up significantly less memory, and are faster to construct as well. On a large file:+Finally, the tokens take up significantly less memory, and are faster to construct as well. On a large file:
  
 <code> <code>
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 </code> </code>
  
-===== Open Questions =====+==== Extensibility ==== 
 + 
 +The ''PhpToken::getAll()'' method returns ''static[]'', as such it is possible to seamlessly extend the class: 
 + 
 +<PHP> 
 +class MyPhpToken extends PhpToken { 
 +    public function getLowerText() { 
 +        return strtolower($this->text); 
 +    } 
 +
 + 
 +$tokens MyPhpToken::getAll($code); 
 +var_dump($tokens[0] instanceof MyPhpToken); // true 
 +$tokens[0]->getLowerText(); // works 
 +</PHP> 
 + 
 +To guarantee a well-defined construction behavior, the ''PhpToken'' constructor is final and cannot be overridden by child classes. This matches the extension approach of the ''SimpleXMLElement'' class.
  
 ==== Additional methods ==== ==== Additional methods ====
  
-There are a few useful helper methods that could be added to the ''PhpToken'' class. Three suggestions are given as PHP code below. The ''is()'' method is useful helpervariations of which will be found in many libraries processing token streams. ''isIgnorable()'' helps the particularly common case of skipping whitespace-like tokens. ''getTokenName()'' avoids going through ''token_name()'' for debug output.+The ''PhpToken'' class defines few additional methods, which are defined in terms of the reference-implementations given below.
  
 <PHP> <PHP>
-class PhpToken +public function getTokenName(): ?string 
-    /** Whether the token has the given ID, the given text+    if ($this->id < 256) { 
-     *  or has an ID/text part of the given array*/ +        return chr($this->id); 
-    public function is($kind): bool { +    } elseif ('UNKNOWN' !== $name = token_name($this->id)) { 
-        if (is_array($kind)) { +        return $name; 
-            foreach ($kind as $singleKind) { +    } else { 
-                if (is_string($singleKind)) { +        return null; 
-                    if ($this->text === $singleKind) { +    } 
-                        return true; +
-                    +</PHP> 
-                } else if (is_int($singleKind)) { + 
-                    if ($this->id === $singleKind) { +''getTokenName()'' is mainly useful for debugging purposes. For single-char tokens with IDs below 256, it returns the extended ASCII character corresponding to the ID. For known tokensit returns the same result as ''token_name()''. For unknown tokensit returns null. 
-                        return true+ 
-                    } +It should be noted that tokens that are not known to PHP are commonly used, for example when emulating lexer behavior from future PHP versions. In this case custom token IDs are used, so they should be handled gracefully
-                } else { + 
-                    throw new TypeError("Kind array must have elements of type int or string");+<PHP> 
 +public function is($kind): bool { 
 +    if (is_array($kind)) { 
 +        foreach ($kind as $singleKind) { 
 +            if (is_string($singleKind)) { 
 +                if ($this->text === $singleKind) { 
 +                    return true;
                 }                 }
 +            } else if (is_int($singleKind)) {
 +                if ($this->id === $singleKind) {
 +                    return true;
 +                }
 +            } else {
 +                throw new TypeError("Kind array must have elements of type int or string");
             }             }
-            return false; 
-        } else if (is_string($kind)) { 
-            return $this->text === $kind; 
-        } else if (is_int($kind)) { 
-            return $this->id === $kind, 
-        } else { 
-            throw new TypeError("Kind must be of type int, string or array"); 
         }         }
 +        return false;
 +    } else if (is_string($kind)) {
 +        return $this->text === $kind;
 +    } else if (is_int($kind)) {
 +        return $this->id === $kind,
 +    } else {
 +        throw new TypeError("Kind must be of type int, string or array");
     }     }
 +}
 +</PHP>
  
-    /** Whether this token would be ignored by the PHP parser. */ +The ''is()'' method allows checking for certain tokens, while abstracting over whether it is a single-char token ''%%$token->is(';')%%'', a multi-char token ''%%$token->is(T_FUNCTION)%%'', or whether multiple tokens are allowed ''%%$token->is([T_CLASST_TRAITT_INTERFACE])%%''.
-    public function isIgnorable(): bool { +
-        return $this->is([ +
-            T_WHITESPACE, +
-            T_COMMENT, +
-            T_DOC_COMMENT, +
-            T_OPEN_TAG, +
-        ])+
-    }+
  
-    /** Get the name of the token. *+While non-generic code can easily check the appropriate property, such as ''%%$token->text == ';'%%'' or ''%%$token->id == T_FUNCTION%%'', token stream implementations commonly need to be generic over different token kinds and need to support specification of multiple token kindsFor example: 
-    public function getTokenName(): string + 
-        if ($this->id 256) { +<PHP> 
-            return chr($this->id)+// An example, NOT part of the PhpToken interface. 
-        } else +public function findRight($pos, $findTokenKind) { 
-            return token_name($this->id);+    $tokens = $this->tokens; 
 +    for ($count = \count($tokens); $pos $count; $pos++) { 
 +        if ($tokens[$pos]->is($findTokenKind)) { 
 +            return $pos;
         }         }
     }     }
 +    return -1;
 } }
 </PHP> </PHP>
  
-==== Allowing extension of the class ====+These kinds of search/skip/check APIs benefit from having an efficient native implementation of ''is()''.
  
-If the class is extendedshould ''MyPhpToken::getAll()'' return an array of ''MyPhpToken''? How does this interact with constructors?+<PHP> 
 +public function isIgnorable(): bool { 
 +    return $this->is([ 
 +        T_WHITESPACE, 
 +        T_COMMENT, 
 +        T_DOC_COMMENT, 
 +        T_OPEN_TAG, 
 +    ]); 
 +
 +</PHP> 
 + 
 +As a special case, it is very common that whitespace and comments need to be skipped during token processing. The ''isIgnorable()'' method determines whether a token is ignored by the PHP parser.
  
 ===== Rejected Features ===== ===== Rejected Features =====
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 ===== Vote ===== ===== Vote =====
  
-Yes No.+Voting opened 2020-03-06 and closes 2020-03-20. 
 + 
 +<doodle title="Add object-based token_get_all() alternative?" auth="nikic" voteType="single" closed="true"> 
 +   Yes 
 +   No 
 +</doodle>
  
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