sebastianbergmann/exporter

This system is a PHP library for exporting values to human-readable strings, now renamed to sebastian/exporter and requiring PHP 8.4. It provides a customizable export mechanism via the ObjectExporter interface, allowing users to define custom logic for complex objects while safely handling recursion and nested structures. The library includes comprehensive test coverage for various data types and custom exporter chains, supported by modernized build tooling and automated release processes.

Users can now provide custom logic for how specific objects are converted to strings by implementing the new ObjectExporter interface and passing it to the Exporter constructor. The library introduces an ExportContext to track recursion and export state, ensuring that custom exporters can safely delegate nested value exports without causing infinite loops or duplicate references. A default ObjectExporterChain implementation is provided to manage multiple custom exporters, allowing users to define priority-based handling for complex or reflection-sensitive objects (such as protobuf messages) that previously caused issues like segfaults or incorrect output.

src · high confidence

The PHPExporter component, including the Exporter, ExporterContext, and ExporterException classes, has been removed from the codebase. This eliminates the utility previously used for generating textual representations of PHP values (similar to print\_r but with improved handling of nulls, booleans, and recursion) for users who relied on this specific export functionality.

src/PHPExporter · high confidence

A change to existing behaviour in tools — 142 commits, 5 files.

tools · medium confidence · unverified

A new build script, extract-release-notes.php, has been added to the build directory to support the automated creation of releases when a tag is pushed. This utility parses the project's ChangeLog.md file to extract the specific section corresponding to a given version tag, allowing the release process to automatically include the correct changelog entries without manual intervention.

build · high confidence

The project has replaced legacy build and configuration files with modern equivalents: \phpunit.xml.dist\ is removed in favor of \phpunit.xml\, and \php-cs-fixer.php\ is replaced by \.php-cs-fixer.dist.php\. A new \.gitattributes\ file is introduced to control archive exports (excluding tests, tools, and build artifacts) and define diff drivers. The \LICENSE\ file is updated to the BSD 3-Clause format with a 2026 copyright year, and \README.md\ is rewritten to reflect the current \sebastian/exporter\ namespace and usage patterns.

(repo-wide) · high confidence

Added test coverage for Exporter and ObjectExporterChain; Added test fixtures for custom object exporters and enum types; Removed PHPExporter test suite.

The package has been renamed to sebastian/exporter and bumped to major version 8.2, requiring PHP 8.4 and the ext-mbstring extension. It now depends on sebastian/recursion-context ^8.0.1 and updates the dev dependency phpunit/phpunit to ^13.3.4. The composer.json also adds support metadata, configures platform optimization, and switches to classmap autoloading.

(dependencies) · high confidence

The \tools/.phpstan\ directory has been updated to use PHPStan version 2.2.14, along with \phpstan-strict-rules\ 2.0.12 and \ergebnis/phpstan-rules\ 2.13.1. This update brings the latest static analysis capabilities and rule sets to the project's development tooling, ensuring that code quality checks reflect the current standards of these libraries.

tools/.phpstan · high confidence

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

• First survey — no prior run to compare against. CAI 72.

• Code Health 99
• Architecture 69
• Maturity 66
• Readiness 78
• Security 89

• 300 commits — 285 feature/other, 15 fixes

• (root) — 101 commits
• src/Exporter.php — 45 commits
• .github/workflows — 44 commits
• tools/.phpstan — 40 commits
• (repo) — 28 commits
• tests/ExporterTest.php — 22 commits
• .phive/phars.xml — 8 commits
• tests/_fixture — 5 commits
• .github/FUNDING.yml — 2 commits
• src/exception — 2 commits
• .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md — 1 commit
• .github/CONTRIBUTING.md — 1 commit
• .psalm/baseline.xml — 1 commit

• fix: Fix
• fix: Fix
• fix: Fix
• fix: Fix
• fix: Fix CS/WS issues
• fix: Fix CS/WS issues
• fix: Fix code coverage metadata
• fix: Fix package name
• fix: Fix version constraint
• fix: Revert "Make Exporter::toArray() private"
• fix: Revert "Refactor"
• fix: Revert "Remove the optional $indentation parameter of Exporter::export()"
• fix: Revert "Rename method"
• fix: Revert #56
• fix: fix: use ReflectionClass insteadof ReflectionObject
• change: * Install PHPStan using Composer in order to be able to use phpstan/phpstan-strict-rules and tomasvotruba/type-coverage * Configure phpstan/phpstan-strict-rules, tomasvotruba/type-coverage, and ergebnis/phpstan-rules * Update PHPStan configuration * Put Phive binary under version control and manage it through "ant update-tools"
• change: Accept any object exporter, not just a chain, in Exporter's constructor
• change: Add Liberapay and Tidelift
• change: Add documentation on how to contribute
• change: Add tests
• …and 280 more

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