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This library wraps a Doctrine annotation reader in order to provide a cleaner interface to parsing class and interface annotations.

AbstractAnnotation

This is the base class that must be extended from to use this library.

Override init if the annotation data schema is different from a single value key. Override allowMultiple and return true if multiple instances of this annotation is allowed to be stored. Override getName if you want to use a different name than the class name.

AnnotationReaderAdapter

This class accepts a Doctrine Reader interface and Doctrine CacheProvider. It has three public methods of interest. Each one returns an AnnotationCollection.

The readClass method takes a class name and $useParent as parameters. If $useParent is true, the reader will look at the super class or all interfaces is the provided class is an interface.

The readMethod and readProperty operate the same. They both accept the name of the method or property, the class name, $useParent, and $useClass as parameters. The $useParent parameter works the same as readClass. The $useClass parameter–if true–inherits annotations from the class as well. If $useParent is true, the parent class annotations will also be added.

If multiple annotations are not allowed, any time a duplicate is found, it will be ignored. This allows methods to override class level annotations, for example.

AnnotationCollection

This is returned from the reader. You can get single annotations using get and annotations that allow multiple using getAll, which returns an array. Both methods take the annotation name as a parameter, which is defined by the annotation and defaults to the class name.