Exposure

"Make your privates public".

Have you ever needed access to private/protected object properties or methods? Of course they're private/protected for a reason... but, sometimes you just need them.

Exposure exposes private and protected properties and methods as well as allowing for new methods to be added to an object after instantiation.

Installation

Via Composer

composer require stevenwadejr/exposure

What's new in 0.3.0?

You can now expose your objects and benefit from type hinting. Exposure now comes with a factory to create a new instance of Exposure that extends your closed class.

Example:

use StevenWadeJr\Exposure\Factory;

class CantTouchThis
{
    private $privateParty = 'This is private';
}

$exposed = Factory::expose(new CantTouchThis);

echo $exposed->privateParty; // outputs 'This is private'
var_dump($exposed instanceof CantTouchThis); // outputs 'true'

Example

<?php
use StevenWadeJr\Exposure\Exposure;

class CantTouchThis
{
    public $publicProperty = 'This is public';

    protected $protectedProperty = 'This is protected';

    private $privateProperty = 'This is private';

    public function publicMethod()
    {
        return 'This is a public method';
    }

    protected function protectedMethod()
    {
        return 'This is a protected method';
    }

    private function privateMethod()
    {
        return 'This is a private method';
    }
}

$exposure = new Exposure(new CantTouchThis);

Access public properties and methods

echo $exposure->publicProperty; // outputs 'This is public'
echo $exposure->publicMethod(); // outputs 'This is a public method'

Inaccessible properties and methods

echo $exposure->privateProperty; // outputs 'This is private'
echo $exposure->protectedMethod(); // outputs 'This is a protected method'

Overwrite protected properties

$exposure->protectedProperty = 'New protected property';
echo $exposure->protectedProperty; // outputs 'New protected property'

Add a new method to the object

$exposure->__methods('setProtectedProperty', function()
{
    $this->protectedProperty = 'Whoops, I touched this!';
});
$exposure->setProtectedProperty();
echo $exposure->protectedProperty; // outputs 'Whoops, I touched this!'

Why?

Obviously, try to follow the Open/Closed Principle whenever possible, and there are rarely ever any circumstances when you should actually use this class, but sometimes there are.

Uses

Production? Please don't. Testing? Sure!