symfony/symfony — pull request #3756 by stof (2012-04-01 22:15:01+00:00)
Title: Autoloader refactoring

Bug fix: no
Feature addition: yes
Backwards compatibility break: no
Symfony2 tests pass: [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/stof/symfony.png?branch=autoloader_refactoring)](http://travis-ci.org/stof/symfony)

As discussed in #3623, I added a new ClassLoader instead of modifying the UniversalClassLoader, to be able to use the method names without BC concerns. The new class works the same than the composer autoloader regarding the handling of fallbacks, to be able to reuse namespace maps generated by composer.

```php
addPrefixes($map);

$loader->register();
```

Differences with the composer class loader:

- Composer's ``add`` method is named ``addPrefix`` in the Symfony ClassLoader
- the methods related to the class map are removed as Symfony has a separate laoder for class maps
- the ``addPrefixes`` method is added, accepting a namespace map.

I also added a new ApcClassLoader which uses composition instead of inheriting from a class loader, which makes it far more easier to reuse (we could wrap a Composer autoloader with it for instance).

TODO:

- refactor the Debug class loader to use composition too to be able to support different class loaders