Doctrine 2 - ORM

Remove the _ prefix from private and protected members

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  • Type: Task Task
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: 2.0
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  • Security Level: All
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Description

The reasoning is simple: The prefix "_" is usually either used for easier distinction of instance variables from other, i.e. local variables, instead of always using "this." (often seen in C#), or it is used to signal that a member is not meant to be accessed from outside of the class when the language does not have visibility modifiers (PHP4).

Since you always have to use "$this->" in PHP5+ when accessing instance members and there are visibility modifiers, the "_" is largely superfluous and just makes the verbose OO code even more verbose.

Maybe the following find/replace steps will do the job almost completely:

"private $_" => "private $"
"protected $_" => "protected $"
"$this->_" => "$this->"

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Benjamin Eberlei added a comment -

i just found a possible BC issue with this.

EntityRepository is allowed to be extended by us, it has several variables that are underscore prefixed. How to proceed in this case?

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Benjamin Eberlei added a comment - i just found a possible BC issue with this. EntityRepository is allowed to be extended by us, it has several variables that are underscore prefixed. How to proceed in this case?
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Roman S. Borschel added a comment -

I know but its not really a problem I think. We should just decide whether we make them private in the first place and provide getters instead (which would have avoided this problem in the first place).

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Roman S. Borschel added a comment - I know but its not really a problem I think. We should just decide whether we make them private in the first place and provide getters instead (which would have avoided this problem in the first place).
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Roman S. Borschel added a comment -

Leaving the prefixes on the repository class only is also an option... but I dont think thats necessary.

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Roman S. Borschel added a comment - Leaving the prefixes on the repository class only is also an option... but I dont think thats necessary.
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Benjamin Eberlei added a comment -

can we commit getters for Beta 1 then? We could give everyone a period until Beta 2 to fix their code and then make the change.

EntityRepository is the only class that is meant to be userland extendable to my knowledge, so this should be the only problem to adress

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Benjamin Eberlei added a comment - can we commit getters for Beta 1 then? We could give everyone a period until Beta 2 to fix their code and then make the change. EntityRepository is the only class that is meant to be userland extendable to my knowledge, so this should be the only problem to adress
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Roman S. Borschel added a comment -

Yes, you can add getters and commit right away if you want. Plus adding a note on the upgrade document that direct access of these properties is deprecated.

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Roman S. Borschel added a comment - Yes, you can add getters and commit right away if you want. Plus adding a note on the upgrade document that direct access of these properties is deprecated.
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Roman S. Borschel added a comment -

Persisters will be also extensible some day in userland but they need more polish for that, I've already started with it

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Roman S. Borschel added a comment - Persisters will be also extensible some day in userland but they need more polish for that, I've already started with it
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Johnny Peck added a comment -

Is this still planned? Searching the code base finds this is not being implemented. It would be a good idea to implement the change sooner than later if it will be done at all. Also, +1 for the change. It makes complete sense.

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Johnny Peck added a comment - Is this still planned? Searching the code base finds this is not being implemented. It would be a good idea to implement the change sooner than later if it will be done at all. Also, +1 for the change. It makes complete sense.
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