Deprecate old ReflectionParameter type declaration APIs #5209
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This deprecates:
ReflectionParameter::isArray()
ReflectionParameter::isCallable()
ReflectionParameter::getClass()
These APIs have been superseded by
ReflectionParameter::getType()
since PHP 7.0. Types introduced since that time are not available through the old APIs, and their behavior is getting increasingly confusing. This is how they interact with PHP 8 union types:isArray()
will return true if the type isarray
or?array
, but not any other union typeisCallable()
.getClass()
will return a class forT|int
etc, as long as the union only contains a single type.T1|T2
will return null.This behavior is not particularly reasonable or useful, and will get more confusing as new type system extensions are added.