RSS Feed/News Developer feature: Improve entity creation process

[ENXF NET]

Creating various entities is a fairly common task, and requires manual fixing of type hinting.

Code like this is very common.
PHP:

/** @var \XF\Entity\Phrase $phrase */
$phrase = $this->_em->create('XF:Phrase');

or
PHP:

$phrase = $this->_em->create('XF:Phrase');
assert($phrase instanceof \XF\Entity\Phrase );

In either case, a stringy identifier is being used and the full type is repeated again before/after. phpstorm's metadata can sometimes help, but not in all cases.

There is however a...

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