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IncompleteClassAccessor

Class to access ALL properties of a __PHP_Incomplete_Class

PLEASE NOTE: This is a proof of concept and not ment to be used in production software.

Use case

• You have an object serialized and stored to e.g. the database.
• Time is passing by and the underlying class has been modified, moved or deleted.
• You read the serealized object from your storage and receive a __PHP_Incomplete_Class object.
• You want to read the object's properties, even those which are private.

PHP build-in

• PHP does not provide a convenient way to read private properties from such an object. ReflectionClass does not publish any of the properties.
• The available unserialize_callback_func only lets you load an apropriate class by name (which may not exist anymore).

What IncompleteClassAccessor does

• Reads the name of the original class from the __PHP_Incomplete_Class object.
• It serializes the __PHP_Incomplete_Class object.
• It modifies the resulting serialized string to convert the __PHP_Incomplete_Class object to a stdClass object.
• It unserializes the modified string and reads all (now accessable) object properties into a key-value array.
• If a property value itself is a __PHP_Incomplete_Class object, it creates an instance of IncompleteClassAccessor for this value. (So it is recursive.)

Example usage

You are now able to map the old serialized object to an apropriate new one.