How to handle resources

[mario-deluna]

Hello, first off thank all of you for all the work that goes into this library.

My question is how do I handle or create a resource?

My current workaround is wrapping the resource / pointer in a Php::Base class.

class ResourceWrapper : public Php::Base
{
private:
    MyResource *_resource = nullptr;

public:
	ResourceWrapper() : _resource(MyResource()) {}
        ~ ResourceWrapper() {}
    
        inline MyResource *getResource() { return _resource; }
};

and then using it like this:

void ClassThatDoesSomethingWithResource::setResource(Php::Parameters &parameters)
{
    Php::Value object = parameters[0];
    
    if (!object.instanceOf("ResourceWrapper")) throw Php::Exception("First argument must be an instance of ResourceWrapper.");
    
    ResourceWrapper *wrapper = (ResourceWrapper *)object.implementation();
    
    MyResource *resource = wrapper->getResource();
}

Is there a more elegant approach to hold the pointer inside PHP?

Many thanks Mario.