This behavior really messes with my projects, as it automatically loads all php files. Not just those with classes, but also simple scripts, which can do horrible stuff (e.g. I've got scripts to make changes in the source code!)

Annotations should be read without executing the scripts, e.g. by TokenReflection library: https://github.com/Andrewsville/PHP-Token-Reflection

pull https://github.com/doctrine/common/pull/176

@Jan Tokenizing the file was the way annotations were handled in 2.0. Doctrine 2.1 switched to using Reflection to read annotation because it is faster.

@Filip I'm wondering why you would have PHPUnit testcases in a path storing entities.

@stof

> Tokenizing the file was the way annotations were handled in 2.0. Doctrine 2.1 switched to using Reflection to read annotation because it is faster.

And it is obviousely the wrong one. There is no argument, that could beat the fact, that the result can and should be cached, as it does already. Correct behaviour is much more valuable than few miliseconds on first run.

> I'm wondering why you would have PHPUnit testcases in a path storing entities.

I don't. They are base classes for the actual tests. I agree they might (or should) be somewhere else, but the fact, that they should not be executed, when readed, stays.

@Filip The AnnotationReader is not loading any file. It simply expects a ReflectionClass.
And for the performances, we are talking about running several times faster here (I don't have the benchmark results anymore but you could search in the merged PRs on Doctrine Common)

The ORM AnnotationDriver expects a path in which it should look for annotated classes, to be able to implement getAllClasses() (as it cannot expect all classes to be already loaded). And btw, the behavior was the same in 2.0 when the reader was using tokenization.