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Reflecting on Service Data Objects

SDOs have a knowledge of the structure they have been created to

represent (the model). For example, a Company SDO created using

the Company XML schema above

would only be permitted to contain DepartmentType data objects

which in turn could only contain EmployeeType data objects.

Sometimes it is useful to be able to access this model information at

runtime. For example, this could be used to automatically generate

a user interface for populating a data object. The model information

is accessed using reflection.

Example #1 Reflecting on a Data Object

The following example shows how we can reflect on an empty Employee

data object.

print($reflection);?>

以上例程会输出：

object(SDO_Model_ReflectionDataObject)#4 { - ROOT OBJECT - Type {

companyNS:EmployeeType[3] { commonj.sdo:String $name;

commonj.sdo:String $SN; commonj.sdo:Boolean $manager; } }

Using print on the SDO_Model_ReflectionDataObject writes out the data

object's model. We can see from the output how the type

companyNS:EmployeeType has three properties and we can see the names

of the properties along with their types. Note, the primitive types

are listed as SDO types (e.g. commonj.sdo namespace, String type).

It is worth noting that this is the SDO model and when these are

surfaced to an application they can be treated as the PHP equivalent

types (e.g. string and boolean).

Example #2 Accessing the type information

We can query the type information of a data object using reflection.

The following example checks the type corresponds to a data object

rather than a primitive and then iterates through the properties of

the type, writing out the name of each property ($type and $property

are SDO_Model_Type and SDO_Model_Property objects, respectively).

<?php // Create the employee data object (e.g. from an XML Data Access Service)$employee= ...;$reflection= newSDO_Model_ReflectionDataObject($employee);$type=$reflection->getType();

if (!$type->isDataType()) {

foreach ($type->getProperties() as$property) {

print$property->getName() ."\n";

}

}?>

以上例程会输出：

name

SN

manager