Minime \ Annotations

Minime\Annotations is a very simple PHP library that lets you create APIs that react to metadata with great flexibility and no headache.

Features & Roadmap

• [DONE] Class, property and method annotations
• [DONE] Namespaced annotations
• [DONE] API to filter and traverse annotations
• [DONE] Traits (for convenient integration)
• Parser
  • [DONE] Optional strong typed annotations: float, integer, string, json
  • [DONE] Dynamic annotations (eval type)
  • [DONE] Implicit boolean annotations
  • [DONE] Multiple value annotations
  • [DONE] Inline Docblock support (see #15)
  • [TODO] Multiline annotations value (see #16)
  • [TODO] Parser improvements and optimizations (see #17)

Installation

Manually update composer.json with:

{
  "require": {
    "minime/annotations": "~1.1"
  }
}

Or just use your terminal: composer require minime/annotations:~1.1 🎱

Basic Usage

Using as a trait

The trait approach is useful for self / internal reflection:

/**
 * @get @post @delete
 * @entity bar
 * @has-many Baz
 * @accept json ["json", "xml", "csv"]
 * @max integer 45
 * @delta float .45
 * @cache-duration eval 1000 * 24 * 60 * 60
 */
class FooController
{
    use Minime\Annotations\Traits\Reader;
}

$foo = new Foo();
$annotations = $foo->getClassAnnotations();

$annotations->get('get')      // > bool(true)
$annotations->get('post')     // > bool(true)
$annotations->get('delete')   // > bool(true)

$annotations->get('entity')   // > string(3) "bar"
$annotations->get('has-many') // > string(3) "Baz"

$annotations->get('accept')   // > array(3){ [0] => "json" [1] => "xml" [2] => "csv" }
$annotations->get('max')      // > int(45)
$annotations->get('delta')    // > double(0.45)
$annotations->get('cache-duration')    // > int(86400000)

$annotations->get('undefined')  // > null

Getting annotations from property and methods is easy too:

$foo->getPropertyAnnotations('property_name');
$foo->getMethodAnnotations('method_name');

Using the facade

The facade is useful when you want to inspect classes out of your logic domain:

use Minime\Annotations\Facade;

Facade::getClassAnnotations('Full\Class\Name');
Facade::getPropertyAnnotations('Full\Class\Name', 'property_name');
Facade::getMethodAnnotations('Full\Class\Name', 'method_name');

Grepping and traversing

Let's suppose you want to pick just a group of annotations:

/**
 * @response.xml
 * @response.xls
 * @response.json
 * @response.csv
 * @method.get
 * @method.post
 */
class WebService
{
    use Minime\Annotations\Traits\Reader;
}

$annotations = (new WebService())->getClassAnnotations();

Retrieving all annotations within 'response' namespace

$annotations->useNamespace('response')->export();
// > array(3){
// >    ["xml"]  => (bool) TRUE,
// >    ["xls"]  => (bool) TRUE,
// >    ["json"] => (bool) TRUE,
// >    ["csv"]  => (bool) TRUE
// > }

Chainning with grep to get all annotations beginning with 'x' within 'response' namespace:

$annotations->useNamespace('response')->grep('^x')->export();
// > array(3){
// >    ["xml"]  => (bool) TRUE,
// >    ["xls"]  => (bool) TRUE
// > }

Traversing results

foreach($annotations->useNamespace('method') as $annotation => $value)
{
    // some behavior
}

Want to contribute?

Found a bug? Have an improvement? Take a look at the issues, there is always something to be done. Please, send pull requests to develop branch only.

Steps

0. Fork minime\annotations
1. Clone forked repository
2. Install composer dependencies $ composer install --prefer-dist
3. Run unit tests $ phpunit
4. Modify code: correct bug, implement features
5. Back to step 4

PLEASE, be objective with pull requests. Avoid combos of improvements + doc + solve bugs + features within the same pull request.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2013 Márcio Almada. Distributed under the terms of an MIT-style license. See LICENSE for details.