short array syntax (#43)

* short array syntax

* Add missing dependency

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Co-authored-by: Tim van Dijen <tvdijen@gmail.com>

Author: dnmvisser

composer.json

@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@
         "simplesamlphp/composer-module-installer": "^1.3.4",
         "simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp": "^2.2.0",
         "simplesamlphp/xml-common": "^1.16.0",
-        "symfony/http-foundation": "^6.4.0"
+        "symfony/http-foundation": "^6.4.0",
+        "symfony/var-exporter": "^6.4.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp-test-framework": "^1.7.0"

src/MetaLoader.php

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 use SimpleSAML\Metadata;
 use SimpleSAML\Utils;
 use SimpleSAML\XML\DOMDocumentFactory;
+use Symfony\Component\VarExporter\VarExporter;
 
 /**
  * @package SimpleSAMLphp
@@ -620,7 +621,7 @@ public function writeMetadataFiles(string $outputDir): void
                 foreach ($elements as $m) {
                     $entityID = $m['metadata']['entityid'];
                     $content .= "\n" . '$metadata[\'';
-                    $content .= addslashes($entityID) . '\'] = ' . var_export($m['metadata'], true) . ';' . "\n";
+                    $content .= addslashes($entityID) . '\'] = ' . VarExporter::export($m['metadata']) . ';' . "\n";
                 }
 
                 $sysUtils = new Utils\System();