How to explicitly set the class of a variable?

Question

phpstorm

Hello! When the array contains a list of objects and we loop through it, calling each object. Or when the entry looks like this:

$class = '\notification\\'.$row['mode'].'\\'.str_replace(" ", "", ucwords(str_replace("_", " ", $row['model']))) . 'Notification';
  if (class_exists($class)){
    $notifi = new $class($this);
    $notifi->createObject($row);
  }

PHPStorm writes that the createObject method does not exist. It turns out that when working with the $notifi object , hints on existing methods are not displayed and you have to constantly climb into the class to remember.
How in such cases to let PHPStorm know what kind of class it is?

Answer 1

Have you heard of dockblocks?/** @var MyObject $notify */