New in Symfony 2.7: VarDumper improvements
The VarDumper component was introduced in Symfony 2.6 to provide a better
debugging experience. This component includes a dump() function which is a
much better alternative to the regular PHP var_dump() function.
In Symfony 2.7 we made the dump() function easier to use and we also improved
the dumping of complex variables such as PHP reflection classes.
Added support for recursive node toggling¶
Contributed by
Nicolas Grekas
and
Lars Wallenborn
in #14071.
In Symfony 2.6, when dumping a deeply nested variable, you must click on each node arrow to reveal the contents of the nested nodes:
Symfony 2.7 removes this hassle by adding recursive toggle support. Just press
the Ctrl key before clicking on any arrow and you'll toggle all the nested
nodes:
Added new specialized casters¶
Contributed by
Nicolas Grekas
and
Grégoire Pineau
in #14080,
#13980,
#14034,
and #13960.
The VarDumper component uses casters to transform the objects and resources into the array-based data representation used to display the variable contents. Symfony 2.7 includes new casters to improve the debugging of Reflection classes, MongoCursor objects, XML parser resources and AMQP resources.
For example, when you dump a PHP class reflection in Symfony 2.6, you get the string representation of that reflection:
In Symfony 2.7, thanks to the new specialized caster for PHP reflection classes, you'll see a much better dump:
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