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Let's you quickly examine, or rather evaluate, objects and/or datatypes. Depends primarily on basic functions and Reflection classes to ensure speedy evaluations.

Please remember that, when working with objects, you should only be able to check for PUBLIC members. Trying to access private or protected members from outside an object (except inherited) is pointless.

Programming use cases

Examine if the provided thing is of given type and then call the argument given. If it's not of given type, either null will be returned or the given closure will be executed.

Examples:

When

$bool = true;
examine($bool)->whenBoolean(
    fn () => true,   // True block 
    fn () => false   // False block
);

Objects

$var = new SomeObject();
examine($var)->instanceOf(AbstractObject);
examine($var)->hasTrait(AbstractObject);
examine($var)->hasMethod('objectMethod');
examine($var)->hasProperty('objectProperty');

Datatypes

Booleans

$bool = true;
examine($bool)->isTrue(); // true
examine($bool)->isFalse(); // false (duh)
examine($bool)->isEmpty(); // MethodNotFoundException
examine($bool)->ignoreType()->isEmpty(); // null

Strings

examine(' ')->couldBeTrue(); // true
examine('')->couldBeTrue(); // false
examine(0)->couldBeTrue(); // false
examine(0)->couldBeFalse(); // true
examine(' ')->isEmpty(); // false
examine('')->isEmpty(); // true
examine(null)->isEmpty(); // MethodNotFoundException
examine(0)->couldBeTrue(); // false
examine(0)->couldBeFalse(); // true

Integers & floats

examine(1)->isInt(); // true
examine(1)->isFloat(); // false
examine(1.0)->isFloat(); // true
examine(1.0)->isInt(); // false
examine(1)->isTrue(); // false
examine(1)->couldBeTrue(); // true

examine(1.0)->whenFloat(fn () => 13.45);