Feature: #57594 - Optimize ReflectionService Cache handling

See forge#57594

Description

Since its beginnings, Extbase came along with two main caches for reflection data, extbase_reflection and extbase_object. The latter mostly stored information that were relevant to the dependency injection, like inject methods, inject properties and constructor parameters. The information was gathered by actual reflection and by analysing doc blocks of properties and methods.

extbase_reflection stored similar reflection and doc block data about objects but mainly for the parts outside dependency injection.

For example, the validation resolver used it to identify @validate tags, the ActionController used it to identity which properties not to validate. The ORM also used it a lot to find annotated types via @var.

There were a few issues with these two approaches:

  • A lot of redundant data was fetched

  • Data was fetched multiple times at different locations

  • The extbase_reflection cache was stored each plugin separately, resulting in a lot of redundant cache data for each plugin cache

  • At a lot of places, the reflection service was used to reflect objects, but the data wasn't cached or taken from a cache resulting in performance drawbacks

Impact

  • The extbase_object cache has been removed completely and all necessary information about objects, mainly @inject functionality, is now fetched from the ReflectionService as well.

  • The ReflectionService does still create ClassSchema instances but these were improved a lot. All necessary information is now gathered during the instantiation of ClassSchema instances. This means that all necessary data is fetched once and then it can be used everywhere making any further reflection superfluous.

  • As runtime reflection has been removed completely, along with it several reflection classes, that analyzed doc blocks, have been removed as well. These are no longer necessary.

  • The extbase_reflection cache is no longer plugin based and will no longer be stored in the database in the first place. Serialized ClassSchema instances will be stored in typo3temp/var/cache or var/cache/ for composer-based installations.