lithium\core\MergeInheritable
Provides methods to recursively merge an object's array properties.
Does intentionally not do any caching of method call results, as it is expected that inheritance happens on distinct classes once per (request/response) cycle.
Source
trait MergeInheritable {
/**
* Recursively merges a set of properties of each parent in the class tree into the
* objects corresponding property.
*
* When called from a subclass will stop after merging that class' properties this
* method is member of.
*
* _Note_: Will error out when trying to merge a non-array property.
*
* @param array $properites Names of array properties to merge with.
* @return void
*/
protected function _inherit(array $properties) {
if (($class = get_called_class()) === __CLASS__) {
return;
}
foreach (class_parents($class) as $parent) {
$inherit = get_class_vars($parent);
foreach ($properties as $member) {
if (isset($inherit[$member])) {
$this->{$member} += $inherit[$member];
}
}
if ($parent === __CLASS__) {
break;
}
}
}
}