non-complex types only used hints

[te_a...@gmx.net]

Hi everyone,

I have a few rather complex WSDLs and need to write SOAPServers and SOAPClients to provide/use these services. wsdl2phpgenerator creates all the complex types and I autoload them into my code.
To create WSDL conform objects I wrote a function which recursivly creates a skeleton by iterating the class-methods and using all setter functions. This is easy for the complex-types in my case as i.e. 'setBook($Book)' will need a 't_Book' object. This approach fails for the basic types like 'int' as I can't detect the class. BUT the correct type can be found in the Documentator strings - which I can't access on runtime (at least to my knowledge).

I noticed that DateTime is different:
public function setBookPageCount(BookPageCount) {}
public function setBookDateTime(\DateTime $BookDateTime) {}

At a first glance I would say this happens in Validator::validateTypeHint() which will only hint arrays and DateTime.

Is there a reason why simple types are ignored? A pitfall I'm missing?

Cheers
Tim

p.s.

version: 3.3.1
options: 'constructorParamsDefaultToNull' => true (but false has the same result)

[te_a...@gmx.net]

Found out myself... type hinting is only for objects and arrays, duh!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4103480/really-php-argument-1-passed-to-my-function-must-be-an-instance-of-string-s#4103536

[Eric Keyte]

It wouldn't be unreasonable now since PHP 7, though, eh?