mgdigital / deconstructor

v0.1.4 2016-06-02 13:41 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.0

Unknown License

Published on Packagist.org on 2016-06-02 13:42 UTC

README

What?

Classes can have constructors, so why not deconstructors?

Why?

Allows an object to describe how it was instantiated, allowing identical copies to be created from its constructor arguments.

How?

<?php

class ValueObject implements MGDigital\Deconstructor\DeconstructorInterface
{

    private $property;

    public function __construct($property)
    {
        $this->property = $property;
    }

    public function deconstruct(): array
    {
        return [$this->property];
    }

    public function getProperty()
    {
        return $this->property;
    }

}

$instance = new ValueObject('value');
$deconstruction = MGDigital\Deconstructor\Deconstruction::deconstruct($instance);
$copy = $deconstruction->construct();
echo $copy->getProperty(); // value