- Updated the minimum PHP runtime version to 7.0.0
- Added scalar type declarations to parameters, where possible
- Added return type declarations, where possible
- Enabled strict typing on all files
- Introduced a new 'Builder' and type-processor concept, to better support immutable values/models
- Introduced a new 'Context' concept to hydrators, builders, and the process pipeline, to enable more advanced value/model processing in a more functional manner, without having to resort to holding state in a hydrator/builder
- Fixed various code style inconsistencies
- Updated a test to work with PHP 7's new engine exceptions, in particular the
TypeErrorexception class - Fixed a bug with how the
StructureFactorydetected map-like structures with mixed key types
- Introduced a new
AbstractDelegateHydratorclass to allow for implementing a hydrator while using a delegate callback- While this facilitates simple method delegation, its real design was to allow for the use of type-hinted hydrators that could circumvent PHP's type-system limitations.
- For more info, read the class doc-block of the new
AbstractDelegateHydratorclass