Description
For a method in a class, for which I want the XML root name and list of values that should be attributes to be changed, I know I can do:
<?php
/**
* @class XmlFormat(root_name=foobar&attribute_names=xmlns,id)
*/...before the method. However, I'm potentially going to have hundreds of methods across various classes, and this duplication seems somewhat redundant as I'll want the same root name across all of them, and same attribute sets across most of them.
What I'd like to do (but I couldn't get working), is to create my own format, that extends XmlFormat, but sets new default values for properties. Something like:
<?php
require 'restler/xmlformat.php';
class MyXmlFormat extends XmlFormat {
public static $root_name = 'foobar';
public static $attribute_names = array('xmlns', 'id');
}or
<?php
require 'restler/xmlformat.php';
class MyXmlFormat extends XmlFormat {
public __construct() {
self::$root_name = 'foobar';
self::$attribute_names = array('xmlns', 'id');
}
}...with
<?php
$r->setSupportedFormats('JsonFormat', 'MyXmlFormat');in the index.php.
Is such a thing possible / am I heading along the right lines? Some use of var_dump() showed that a MyXmlFormat object was being used, but the static properties being returned via self::$... were not picking up the new values.