Support __DIR__ etc.

[franzliedke]

The Laravel documentation makes me think that having constants like __DIR__ in a serialized closure will break things.

Do you think that we could build some magic around this?

[jeremeamia]

I can't speak for the Laravel documentation, but SuperClosure should handle magic constants just fine. One of the features on the README says, "Replaces magic constants with their expected values so that the closure behaves as expected after unserialization". The two visitor classes help make this possible.

Now, if you've tried it, and it is not working, then I would consider it a bug. Have you tried it, or are you just going off what the Laravel docs say?

Prior to about September last year, Laravel did not use the SuperClosure package (it was using an older, vendored version of SuperClosure). At that point in time, that piece of documentation was probably true. If __DIR__ is working for you, then you should raise an issue with the Laravel docs to have that updated.

[franzliedke]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll contact Laravel's developer and will report back to you.

[franzliedke]

Looks like it was just an oversight. Thank you, great library by the way!

[franzliedke]

Works beautifully, thanks!