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Summary

We have response from 3rd party with 3MB in size, and it take 6 seconds to decode.
With these changes, time reduced to 0.6 seconds.

  • Resolve absent elements and attributes with a non-throwing lookup lens instead of index(), which threw (and caught) an exception per absent node.
  • Hydrate stdClass with a plain cast instead of reflection-based object_data(), which threw (and caught) an exception per property.
  • Add sparse decode benchmarks.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved decoding of objects when XML elements or attributes are missing. Missing values are now represented as null, including nested properties, rather than causing lookup errors.
    • Improved handling of decoded stdClass objects while preserving existing defaults for missing list and non-list values.
  • Performance

    • Added benchmarks for decoding sparse literal responses at single and 500-response scales.

- Resolve absent elements and attributes with a non-throwing lookup lens
  instead of index(), which threw (and caught) an exception per absent node.
- Hydrate stdClass with a plain cast instead of reflection-based
  object_data(), which threw (and caught) an exception per property.
- Add sparse decode benchmarks.
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The decoder now returns null for absent named values and uses a separate hydration path for stdClass. Tests cover missing elements and attributes. Benchmarks add single and 500-item sparse literal response cases.

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Sparse response decoding

Layer / File(s) Summary
Missing property decoding
src/Encoder/ObjectAccess.php, src/Encoder/ObjectEncoder.php, tests/Unit/Encoder/ObjectEncoderTest.php
The default decoder lens returns null when a named array entry is absent. ObjectEncoder populates stdClass from decoded values and continues to hydrate other classes through object_data. Tests cover missing elements and attributes.
Sparse response benchmarks
benchmarks/ComplexTypeBenchTrait.php, benchmarks/DecodeBench.php
The benchmark fixture adds a literal response containing only id and address.city. DecodeBench adds single and 500-item sparse response benchmarks.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2fdb5

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src/Encoder/ObjectEncoder.php (1)

153-156: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the PHPStan varTag.nativeType error on the stdClass return.

PHPStan reports that @var TObj is not a subtype of the native type stdClass. This follows from the (object) $values cast. It will fail the static analysis run if PHPStan runs in CI. Use a @var tag on the cast result that PHPStan accepts, or add a targeted ignore for this line.

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-            /** @var TObj */
-            return (object) $values;
+            /** @var TObj $object */
+            $object = (object) $values;
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+            return $object;

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Review comment at @src/Encoder/ObjectEncoder.php around lines 153 - 156:
Update the stdClass branch in ObjectEncoder so its PHPStan annotation matches
the native type of the cast result. Annotate the cast result with the accepted
type before returning it, or apply a targeted ignore to this line if needed;
preserve the existing return behavior.

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- Around line 153-156: Update the stdClass branch in ObjectEncoder so its
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veewee commented Oct 6, 2026

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Nice find! Thanks for the PR.

I suggested some things to look into to make sure we can make it as performant as we can.
Care to look into those?


// stdClass has no declared properties: reflection-based hydration would build and catch
// an exception for every single property before falling back to a dynamic one.
if ($this->className === stdClass::class) {

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This will of course only add benifits for stdClass.
It feels a bit like a shortcut

Wouldn't it make sense to make set_properties smarter?

https://github.com/veewee/reflecta/blob/main/src/Reflect/properties_set.php

We could always load all properties before adding the predicate.
When the property does not exist and it's a dynamic class, we can just assign.
That will add a speedup for all dynamic classes and would also make the lookup of the property more simple (cause we already have them all and just need to pick based on key).

Not sure what the timing impact would be for the both scenarios.

return $objectData->from($values);
}

private static function runLens(LensInterface $lens, mixed $data, mixed $default = null): mixed

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If we want to have the speedup everywhere, we should somehow be able to get rid of this runLens method here and make all used lenses non-throwing.
We could provide a set of faster lenses in this package for this purpose.

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* @return LensInterface<array<array-key, mixed>|null, array<array-key, mixed>|null, mixed, mixed>
*/
private static function createLookupLens(string $name): LensInterface

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We might move this to a Lens namespace where we provide some highly optimized lenses.

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