Most efficient way to parse structures? about phpasn1 HOT 3 CLOSED

So far I recommend defining a class for the thing you want to parse then move the parsing logic into there (including checking types etc) (check X509/CertificateSubject if you haven't already).
This gives you full error handling capacities, you can handle optional arguments and have full type savety with phpdoc.

The idea of defining templates sounds interesting because it can remove the necessity for the boiler plate code. However, the approach you suggested would only work if I would change the constructors to always accept no arguments which I would rather not do. Instead we could have a nested nested array of type identifiers to define such a template.

If you have yet another idea on how to traverse parsed objects while maintaining type savety and error handling I am all ears :)

I was also thinking about writing a ASN.1 compiler which could take a ASN.1 definition and compile php code which uses PHPASN1 from that. This would be a separate repository though.

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I have create an experimental TemplateParser which you can check out using the experimental/template-parser branch.

I guess this is already pretty useful so I will probably merge this into master soon after I did some more error handling and improved the exception.

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Thanks, I'll bear this advice in mind. Probably will be able to send the Certificate classes your way.

Re: informing a parser about the structure, maybe passing Identifer::XX is best, otherwise I would be thinking of doing Integer::class.

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