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IXR_IntrospectionServer::methodSignature( $method )

Source
wp-includes/IXR/class-IXR-introspectionserver.php:130

Compatibility

WordPress
core
PHP
7.4–8.6-dev
  • 6.7.7
  • 6.8.8
  • 6.9.7
  • 7.0.4
  • 7.1.0

Present in every tracked release (6.7.7 to 7.1.0), and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$method

Performance profile

How much work a call to IXR_IntrospectionServer::methodSignature() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.

Cost class
Trivial

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Scales with input

The body loops, so the work grows with what you pass in.

Instructions
11–12

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 72.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
0

Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.

What one call costs · 1 distinct outcome

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost IXR_IntrospectionServer::methodSignature() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always11–12->hasMethod()

Across PHP versions

PHPCompiledExecutedBranchesNotes
8.6-dev7211–1213
8.57211–1213
8.47211–1213
8.37211–1213
8.27211–12131 more instruction than PHP 8.1
8.17111–12131 more instruction than PHP 7.4
7.47011–1213

An instruction is not a fixed amount of time, so a matching count is not necessarily the same speed; what it rules out is a difference in the work itself.

Uses · 4

Source code

    function methodSignature($method)    {        if (!$this->hasMethod($method)) {            return new IXR_Error(-32601, 'server error. requested method "'.$method.'" not specified.');        }        // We should be returning an array of types        $types = $this->signatures[$method];        $return = array();        foreach ($types as $type) {            switch ($type) {                case 'string':                    $return[] = 'string';                    break;                case 'int':                case 'i4':                    $return[] = 42;                    break;                case 'double':                    $return[] = 3.1415;                    break;                case 'dateTime.iso8601':                    $return[] = new IXR_Date(time());                    break;                case 'boolean':                    $return[] = true;                    break;                case 'base64':                    $return[] = new IXR_Base64('base64');                    break;                case 'array':                    $return[] = array('array');                    break;                case 'struct':                    $return[] = array('struct' => 'struct');                    break;            }        }        return $return;    }

Changelog

Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.

  1. 6.7.7
  2. 6.8.8
  3. 6.9.7
  4. 7.0.4
  5. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.

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