Kyle Terry wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Eric Butera <eric.butera@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Kyle Terry <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Larry Garfield wrote:
Greetings, all. I am looking for feedback on a documentation question, in
the hopes that someone else has found a good solution to an abnormal
situation.
We're in the process of introducing OOP syntax to a large procedural code
base. Our developer base is a mixture of people who are procedural-centric
and those that flip between procedural and OOP easily. One area we've run
into is documenting some of the more complex OOP interactions. For example,
if we have a method chain:
foo()->bar()->baz()->narf();
some developers have expressed concern in figuring out which narf() method
is actually being called, since foo(), bar() and baz() may return objects of
different classes (of the same interface) depending on various conditions
(the classic factory pattern).
Currently, we're including a docblock (Doxygen, close enough to PHPDoc for
government work) on the interface or parent class that has full docs, and
then nothing on the child classes. My understanding of docblocks is that
most documentation parsers prefer that, so that the docblock itself
inherits.
One suggestion that has been raised is to reference the parent class and
factory function in a comment after the method signature. That is:
class Narfing_mysql {
// ...
public function narf() { // Narfing foo()
// ...
}
}
So that it can be easily grepped for. That strikes me as a very hacky
non-
solution. Does anyone else have a recommendation for how to improve such
documentation? Is there a standard in PHPDoc that I don't know about? Any
other projects doing something like that?
first idea would just be to use the @return; if they're using any kind
decent of ide it'll show the return type; failing that they can check the
docs
class Narfing_mysql {
/**
*
* @return Type
*/
public function narf() { // Narfing foo()
// ...
}
}
or not best practice but i dare say
class Narfing_mysql {
/**
*
* @return TypeA, TypeB
*/
public function narf() { // Narfing foo()
// ...
}
}
or in the method description with @see Class inline links?
regards
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Eric and I were just discussing something similar yesterday. We
discovered you can make private and protected method calls from two
different instances of the same object type. I personally called this
reference hopping.
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And I called it haxx. ;)
Never said we used it :) Remember my coworkers responce ... "FIIIINE!"
and I want to know more, do you mean..
class egg {
private function whatever()
{
echo __METHOD__ . PHP_EOL;
}
protected function wherever( $e )
{
$e->whatever();
}
public function whenever( $e ) {
$this->wherever($e);
}
}
$a = new egg;
$b = new egg;
$a->whenever($b);
??
regards!
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