Passing parameters to factories

[Starfox64]

A current pain point of mine is how "static" factories (schemas, responses, requests, etc.) are. The best way to explain is to describe my use case.

I have a recurring pattern of schemas and responses:

• CatSchema
• CatResponse
• CatListResponse

This goes on for every type of entity in my API and having to create all these classes feels like boilerplate hell.

Ideally I would like to only have to define my CatSchema and have reusable generic factories for the responses and list responses.

I've thought about it for a while in the past but haven't found a workaround that doesn't involve changing the package so I'm starting this discussion so that we can brainstorm what the best solutions might be.

The first idea that comes to mind would be to add a factoryParams associative array to all attributes that take factories as input. This would solve that problem but it feels a bit dirty to be passing untyped arrays around. I'm also foreseeing issues with regards to the current Reusable implementation since it's based on a static directory scan, that area would most likely need to be completely changed in favor of on the fly generation of reusable components.