AppScope Trait

trait AppScopeTrait

Introduction

Typical software design will create the application scope. Most frameworks relies on “static” properties, methods and classes. This does puts some limitations on your implementation (you can’t have multiple applications).

App Scope will pass the ‘app’ property into all the object that you’re adding, so that you know for sure which application you work with.

Properties

property AppScopeTrait::$app

Always points to current Application object

property AppScopeTrait::$maxNameLength

When using mechanism for ContainerTrait, they inherit name of the parent to generate unique name for a child. In a framework it makes sense if you have a unique identifiers for all the objects because this enables you to use them as session keys, get arguments, etc.

Unfortunately if those keys become too long it may be a problem, so ContainerTrait contains a mechanism for auto-shortening the name based around maxNameLength. The mechanism does only work if AppScopeTrait is used, $app property is set and has a maxNameLength defined. Minimum value is 40.

property AppScopeTrait::$uniqueNameHashes

As more names are shortened, the substituted part is being placed into this hash and the value contains the new key. This helps to avoid creating many sequential prefixes for the same character sequence.

Methods

None