Installation

composer require brezgalov/php-typed-collection dev-master

Description

Abstraction designed to make typed collections based on Iterator interface

If you need more functions - feel fre to add them to your custom implementation. You can implement ArrayAccess when it required

Usage

class MyClassCollection extends AbstractTypedIterator
{
    /**
     * override to set collection element type 
     */
    public function current(): MyClass
    {
        return parent::current();
    }

    /**
     * Make shure items are same type 
     */
    protected function validateItem($item): bool
    {
        return $item instanceof MyClass;
    }
}

// now go use

$collection = new MyClassCollection([
    new MyClass(),
    new MyClass(),
    new MyClass(),
]);

foreach($collection as $class) {
    // $class instance of MyClass - put your handle logic here 
}

Deep cloning

Objects stored inside collection are references.

If you want to clone collection safely - consider using ContainerDeepCloneTrait or AbstractTypedCloneSafeIterator as it shown below:

ContainerDeepCloneTrait:

class MyClassCollection extends AbstractTypedIterator
{
    use ContainerDeepCloneTrait;

    public function current(): MyClass
    {
        return parent::current();
    }

    protected function validateItem($item): bool
    {
        return $item instanceof MyClass;
    }
}

$clone = clone $myClassCollection; // it's deep cloned now

AbstractTypedCloneSafeIterator:

class MyClassCollection extends AbstractTypedCloneSafeIterator
{
    ...
}

function testClone() {
    $myClass = new MyClass();
    $array = [$myClass];

    return new MyClassCollection($array); // $myClass is cloned
}