Allow returning an arbitrary object from the mocked "new" call

[wladekb]

Feature request:

• allow ZEND_NEW to be overloaded in such a way that it returns an arbitrary object coming from the overload callback (call to constructor is skipped unconditionally in such case)

I'd be happy to hear back if that feature fits the general roadmap of uopz.

Background story:

Wikia currently uses PHP 5.4 and with help of runkit + modified version of php-test-helpers (Wikia/php-test-helpers@9a28725) we were able to have a robust testing environment that satisfies our needs in the area of testing MediaWiki-derived code base.
As we're transitioning to PHP 5.6 we found out that uopz gives us all the functionality of the previous tandem in a single extension except the feature described above. We'd be very happy if we could get the missing piece implemented.

[krakjoe]

Done.

Instead of returning, accept the class by reference and set that to the object, like this:

<?php
class Other {}

uopz_overload(ZEND_NEW, function(&$class){
    switch ($class) { # beware recursion !
        case "stdClass":
            $class = new Other();
        break;
    }
});

$object = new stdClass();

var_dump($object);
?>

krakjoe@fiji:/opt/src/uopz$ php -duopz.overloads=1 uopz.php
object(Other)#2 (0) {
}

[wladekb]

It's great to see such a quick response and code change. Thanks a lot!

[krakjoe]

You're welcome :)

[TheCelavi]

Hello, is there any plan to support this somehow again in PHP 7.x version?