From 85c550339ea685f4054f8600d2d5ba3185f39206 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Fontanet <julien.fontanet@isonoe.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:52:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for magic property handling.

Magic properties  are trickier to handle  because they may not  be assignable by
reference or they might be write-only or whatever.

This patch tries to address these limits.
---
 Transmorph/Writer.php | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Transmorph/Writer.php b/Transmorph/Writer.php
index 01ae951..58b0ac1 100644
--- a/Transmorph/Writer.php
+++ b/Transmorph/Writer.php
@@ -145,7 +145,22 @@ public function feed(&$node, $path, $value)
 
                 $key = substr($pathNode, 1);
 
-                $this->feed($node->$key, $remainingPath, $value);
+                // Indirection to avoid problem with magic properties.
+                try
+                {
+	                /*
+	                 * An  exception  may  be  raised in  some  conditions.  For
+	                 * instance, this might be a write-only property or it might
+	                 * not have a value yet.
+	                 */
+	                $prop = $node->$key;
+                }
+                catch (Exception $e)
+                {
+	                $prop = null;
+                }
+                $this->feed($prop, $remainingPath, $value);
+                $node->$key = $prop;
             }
         }