API

redefine(callable $subject, callable $content) : Handle

Makes all future calls to $subject go to $content instead, as if the former were redefined.

relay([array $arguments]) : mixed

To be called from inside a redefinition; this way, it invokes the original definition and passes on its return value. Arguments default to the ones originally received by the redefinition.

restore(Handle $returnValueOfRedefine) : void

Reverses the effects of redefine().

restoreAll() : void

Reverses the effects of all past calls to redefine(); in other words, makes all future calls behave in the usual manner.

getClass() : string

getCalledClass() : string

getFunction() : string

getMethod() : string

These are alternatives to magic constants and other kinds of self-reference that will not work as expected inside redefinitions.

always(mixed $value) : Closure

Returns a constant-valued callable for use as a redefinition.

hasMissed(callable $callable) : bool

Patchwork will be unable to redefine user-defined functions that are compiled earlier than itself. This checks for the aforementioned condition.

assertEventuallyDefined(Handle $returnValueOfRedefine) : void

Schedules a shutdown-time check to make sure the redefined function's original definition ever appeared.