enumeration values as constants

[ivoba]

What about generating class stubs for enummeration simple types and adding enumeration values as constants to the class?
This would help in building the entities as possible values would be available from Code.
Validation of this values is a similar but different issue, though.

<xsd:simpleType name = "GenderType">
    <xsd:restriction base = "xsd:string">
      <xsd:enumeration value = "Male"/>
      <xsd:enumeration value = "Female"/>
    </xsd:restriction>
  </xsd:simpleType>

class GenderType {
    const MALE = 'Male';
    const FEMALE = 'Female';
}

Or even maybe add it to the owner class. This would mean a bit of redundancy but the relation from property to SimpleType would be more clear.

class Person {
    /** simpleType GenderType*/
    const GENDER_MALE = 'Male';
    const GENDER_FEMALE = 'Female';

     /**
     * @property string $gender
     */
    private $gender = null;
}

[goetas]

Long time ago, in goetas/xsd2php#35 there was a discussion on how to do it... and all the solutions emerged were not good enough.. mainly because PHP itself does not support ENUMS

[ivoba]

Ok i see (how could i not find this thread?)

I would still prefer constants over DocBlocks, resp. DocBlocks as additionally.
Constants feel like a very common, intuitive approach.

Using Slugify for constant names generation and making the generation optional seem like good ideas to me.

To avoid empty classes constants could be added to owner class, as i proposed above.