Convert the PHPStan baseline from NEON to PHP

Created on 8 March 2024, 4 months ago
Updated 31 March 2024, 3 months ago

Problem/Motivation

This issue is split out from โœจ [PP-1] Bump PHPStan to level 9 and accept a large baseline Postponed

In version 1.10.2 PHPStan introduced the ability to generate a baseline in PHP format. This can help with performance in case of large baseline files by ensuring PHPStan doesn't need to parse a file but can include it as PHP directly.

There's another potential benefit in reducing merge conflicts, though this still has to be confirmed in practice. The theory is that git is not good at diffing a large YAML list (which is the neon format) because the start and end of a rule are not distinct (an example excerpt from the Open Social baseline):

parameters:
	ignoreErrors:
		-
			message: "#^Method Drupal\\\\activity_basics\\\\Plugin\\\\ActivityAction\\\\CreateActivityAction\\:\\:create\\(\\) has no return type specified\\.$#"
			count: 1
			path: modules/custom/activity_basics/src/Plugin/ActivityAction/CreateActivityAction.php

		-
			message: "#^Method Drupal\\\\activity_basics\\\\Plugin\\\\ActivityAction\\\\CreateActivityAction\\:\\:create\\(\\) has parameter \\$entity with no type specified\\.$#"
			count: 1
			path: modules/custom/activity_basics/src/Plugin/ActivityAction/CreateActivityAction.php

		-
			message: "#^\\\\Drupal calls should be avoided in classes, use dependency injection instead$#"
			count: 1
			path: modules/custom/activity_basics/src/Plugin/ActivityAction/CreateActivityAction.php

For the PHP format there are more clearly defined boundaries because the start and end of a rule are distinctly delineated by different tokens (the PHP open and close array syntax). Additionally there is at least some logic in git to understand PHP as a language (for example to highlight the function name in a diff -- though the extend of this seems to be undocumented). An excerpt from a level 9 PHP baseline from Drupal Core:

<?php declare(strict_types = 1);

$ignoreErrors = [];
$ignoreErrors[] = [
	'message' => '#^Call to function method_exists\\(\\) with \'Composer\\\\\\\\Composer\' and \'getVersion\' will always evaluate to true\\.$#',
	'count' => 1,
	'path' => __DIR__ . '/../composer/Composer.php',
];
$ignoreErrors[] = [
	'message' => '#^Method Drupal\\\\Composer\\\\Composer\\:\\:drupalVersionBranch\\(\\) should return string but returns string\\|null\\.$#',
	'count' => 1,
	'path' => __DIR__ . '/../composer/Composer.php',
];
$ignoreErrors[] = [
	'message' => '#^Parameter \\#2 \\$base_dir of method Drupal\\\\Composer\\\\Generator\\\\ComponentGenerator\\:\\:generate\\(\\) expects string, string\\|false given\\.$#',
	'count' => 1,
	'path' => __DIR__ . '/../composer/Composer.php',
];

Steps to reproduce

Proposed resolution

Convert the .neon baseline for PHPStan to PHP format.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

Release notes snippet

The baseline for Drupal Core is now generated using the PHP format.

๐Ÿ“Œ Task
Status

Fixed

Version

10.2 โœจ

Component
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Last updated 34 minutes ago

Created by

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑNetherlands Kingdutch

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  • Status changed to Needs review 4 months ago
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑNetherlands Kingdutch
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  • ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ทFrance andypost

    Is there perf impact on time of execution?

    It needs CR and update docs about new way to generate

  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑNetherlands Kingdutch

    Using the following code to time analysis of bd4b8b98a7 (the commit in the MR before the change) and the change itself.

    Full analysis with baseline in place and without generating a new baseline

    vendor/bin/phpstan clear-result-cache --memory-limit=-1 && time vendor/bin/phpstan analyze --configuration=./core/phpstan.neon.dist --memory-limit=-1
    

    Full analysis without baseline in place and generating the baseline from scratch (neon/php used depending on commit tested).

    # neon
    vendor/bin/phpstan clear-result-cache --memory-limit=-1 && rm core/phpstan-baseline.neon && touch core/phpstan-baseline.neon && time vendor/bin/phpstan analyze --configuration=./core/phpstan.neon.dist --memory-limit=-1 --generate-baseline=core/phpstan-baseline.neon
    
    # php
    vendor/bin/phpstan clear-result-cache --memory-limit=-1 && rm -f core/phpstan-baseline.php && echo "<?php return [];" > core/phpstan-baseline.php && time vendor/bin/phpstan analyze --configuration=./core/phpstan.neon.dist --memory-limit=-1 --generate-baseline=core/phpstan-baseline.php
    

    Three runs each (m:ss):

    • (neon) bd4b8b98a7 full analysis without generating - 1:58/1:55/2:00
    • (neon) bd4b8b98a7 full analysis generating baseline - 1:52/1:50/1:37
    • (php) 3426548-convert-the-phpstan full analysis without generating - 1:41/1:41/1:33
    • (php) 3426548-convert-the-phpstan full analysis generating baseline - 1:31/1:38/1:33

    A draft CR has been created. I'm not sure which docs would need to be updated.

  • ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ทFrance andypost

    I mean official docs but can't find any except https://www.drupal.org/search/site/Phpstan%20%20baseline?f%5B0%5D=ss_met... โ†’

    This CR should be updated https://www.drupal.org/node/3258232 โ†’ with a link to new one probably

  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑNetherlands Kingdutch

    I've created the following documentation page which outlines how PHPStan is used in Drupal core: https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/development-tools/phpstan/phpstan-in... โ†’ . I attempted to write it in a way so that it's not outdated when โœจ [PP-1] Bump PHPStan to level 9 and accept a large baseline Postponed lands.

    I've added a reference to the new documentation in the CR for this issue: https://www.drupal.org/node/3426891 โ†’

    I've updated the previous CR that andypost linked to also reference the CR for this issue: https://www.drupal.org/node/3258232 โ†’ . The formatting may need some work, I'm not sure if there's a best practice for those kinds of references.

  • Status changed to RTBC 4 months ago
  • ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ทFrance andypost

    I think the change is minimal and brings 20-25% speed-up for the CI run!

    as PHP 8.3 is the default now we can try use PHP-JIT for the job)

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡นItaly mondrake ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น

    ๐Ÿ”

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งUnited Kingdom longwave UK

    Given the performance improvement I am +1 for landing this, but a bit concerned about conflicting with other ongoing work. We know this will conflict with all other PHPStan issues and require trolling, but do we have a sense of how many other issues will be affected here?

    I suppose what I'm asking is: is this safe enough to commit now or should we wait for the disruptive patches beta window? I think the level bump issue will almost certainly have to wait, as I imagine most ongoing MRs will have undiscovered level 2+ issues.

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡นItaly mondrake ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น

    My 0.02 - I think itโ€™s fine to commit now - the RTBC queue is at its lowest since long. Adjusting any pending MR is just a rebase + c/p of the baseline artifact, since we are not changing the rule level.

  • Status changed to Needs work 4 months ago
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งUnited Kingdom alexpott ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒ

    We need to prevent access to the php here from .htaccess and web.config.
    We also should have MRs up for 10.3.x and 10.2.x so that we can land this all in 1 go.

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งUnited Kingdom longwave UK

    Should we make it a dotfile, ie. core/.phpstan-baseline.php? AFAIK those are blocked from .htaccess/web.config already.

  • ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ทFrance andypost

    Nice idea with dot-file

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  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งUnited Kingdom catch

    Agreed with #11, we've got a lucky window of a shorter RTBC queue than we've had for months, so this will be less disruptive than it otherwise would be.

  • Status changed to Needs review 4 months ago
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑNetherlands Kingdutch

    11.x branch updated. Also updated the documentation and CR to match.

    Created 10.2.x and 10.3.x branches with MRs :)

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  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑNetherlands Kingdutch

    Rebased the three branches :D The diff in the new format for the changes on the 10.3.x branch was very readable ๐Ÿคฉ

    diff --git a/core/.phpstan-baseline.php b/core/.phpstan-baseline.php
    index a42a313689..664664da34 100644
    --- a/core/.phpstan-baseline.php
    +++ b/core/.phpstan-baseline.php
    @@ -49,7 +49,9 @@
     	'path' => __DIR__ . '/includes/theme.maintenance.inc',
     ];
     $ignoreErrors[] = [
    -	'message' => '#^Call to an undefined static method Doctrine\\\\Common\\\\Annotations\\\\AnnotationRegistry\\:\\:registerLoader\\(\\)\\.$#',
    +	'message' => '#^Call to deprecated method registerLoader\\(\\) of class Doctrine\\\\Common\\\\Annotations\\\\AnnotationRegistry\\:
    +This method is deprecated and will be removed in
    +            doctrine/annotations 2\\.0\\. Annotations will be autoloaded in 2\\.0\\.$#',
     	'count' => 1,
     	'path' => __DIR__ . '/lib/Drupal/Component/Annotation/Plugin/Discovery/AnnotatedClassDiscovery.php',
     ];
    @@ -1356,7 +1358,9 @@
     	'path' => __DIR__ . '/modules/migrate/src/MigrateException.php',
     ];
     $ignoreErrors[] = [
    -	'message' => '#^Call to an undefined static method Doctrine\\\\Common\\\\Annotations\\\\AnnotationRegistry\\:\\:registerLoader\\(\\)\\.$#',
    +	'message' => '#^Call to deprecated method registerLoader\\(\\) of class Doctrine\\\\Common\\\\Annotations\\\\AnnotationRegistry\\:
    +This method is deprecated and will be removed in
    +            doctrine/annotations 2\\.0\\. Annotations will be autoloaded in 2\\.0\\.$#',
     	'count' => 1,
     	'path' => __DIR__ . '/modules/migrate/src/Plugin/Discovery/AnnotatedClassDiscoveryAutomatedProviders.php',
     ];
    @@ -2380,12 +2384,6 @@
     	'count' => 1,
     	'path' => __DIR__ . '/tests/Drupal/KernelTests/Core/Config/ConfigInstallTest.php',
     ];
    -$ignoreErrors[] = [
    -	'message' => '#^Call to deprecated method expectError\\(\\) of class PHPUnit\\\\Framework\\\\TestCase\\:
    -https\\://github\\.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/5062$#',
    -	'count' => 2,
    -	'path' => __DIR__ . '/tests/Drupal/KernelTests/Core/Database/ConnectionTest.php',
    -];
     $ignoreErrors[] = [
     	'message' => '#^Variable \\$expected_driver might not be defined\\.$#',
     	'count' => 2,
    @@ -2443,12 +2441,6 @@
     	'count' => 1,
     	'path' => __DIR__ . '/tests/Drupal/KernelTests/Core/Image/ToolkitGdTest.php',
     ];
    -$ignoreErrors[] = [
    -	'message' => '#^Call to deprecated method expectErrorMessage\\(\\) of class PHPUnit\\\\Framework\\\\TestCase\\:
    -https\\://github\\.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/5062$#',
    -	'count' => 1,
    -	'path' => __DIR__ . '/tests/Drupal/KernelTests/Core/Render/Element/MachineNameTest.php',
    -];
     $ignoreErrors[] = [
     	'message' => '#^Variable \\$value in isset\\(\\) always exists and is not nullable\\.$#',
     	'count' => 1,
    @@ -2471,7 +2463,9 @@
     	'path' => __DIR__ . '/tests/Drupal/Tests/BrowserTestBase.php',
     ];
     $ignoreErrors[] = [
    -	'message' => '#^Call to an undefined static method Doctrine\\\\Common\\\\Annotations\\\\AnnotationRegistry\\:\\:registerAutoloadNamespace\\(\\)\\.$#',
    +	'message' => '#^Call to deprecated method registerAutoloadNamespace\\(\\) of class Doctrine\\\\Common\\\\Annotations\\\\AnnotationRegistry\\:
    +This method is deprecated and will be removed in
    +            doctrine/annotations 2\\.0\\. Annotations will be autoloaded in 2\\.0\\.$#',
     	'count' => 1,
     	'path' => __DIR__ . '/tests/Drupal/Tests/Component/Annotation/Doctrine/DocParserTest.php',
     ];
    
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  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บAustralia mstrelan

    Since this file is php do IDEs like PhpStorm try to analyse it? It can obviously be excluded but does that involve manual steps?

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  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑNetherlands Kingdutch

    Since this file is php do IDEs like PhpStorm try to analyse it? It can obviously be excluded but does that involve manual steps?

    I can not answer for all IDEs but only for PHPStorm. PHPStorm does seem to index the file. As far as I found there's nothing we can do against this with things we ship in the repo. I also don't know if it's a problem (i.e. in what ways it affects PHPStorm usage).

    There are settings in PHPStorm that allow excluding files which are global settings that apply to all projects. So in case the analysis of the file by PHPStorm causes problems for someone it's a one-time fix.

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  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งUnited Kingdom longwave UK

    This looks good to me, I think all issues have been addressed and the performance improvement should make this worthwhile.

    Marking RTBC and will ping committers as otherwise this is going to end up being rerolled over and over, given we are landing other PHPStan fixes at the moment.

  • Status changed to Needs work 4 months ago
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  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งUnited Kingdom catch

    core/scripts/dev/commit-code-check.sh also needs to be updated.

  • Status changed to RTBC 4 months ago
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑNetherlands Kingdutch

    Moving this back to RTBC as per #23.

    #24 is a race condition with a mistake for 6996 which was in my push between #19 and #20 but fixed between #21 and #22. GitLab reports that 6996 is fully mergeable at the moment (contrary to the review bot)

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  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑNetherlands Kingdutch

    #26 crossposted with #25. Moving back to needs review after change in core/scripts/dev/commit-code-check.sh

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  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งUnited Kingdom longwave UK

    Review was addressed, back to RTBC.

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  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งUnited Kingdom alexpott ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒ

    We need to add

    diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
    index 76ea8feeb1..e7b792f840 100644
    --- a/.gitattributes
    +++ b/.gitattributes
    @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@
     *.xml     text eol=lf whitespace=blank-at-eol,-blank-at-eof,-space-before-tab,tab-in-indent,tabwidth=2
     *.yml     text eol=lf whitespace=blank-at-eol,-blank-at-eof,-space-before-tab,tab-in-indent,tabwidth=2
     
    +# PHPStan's baseline uses tabs instead of spaces.
    +core/.phpstan-baseline.php text eol=lf whitespace=blank-at-eol,-blank-at-eof,-space-before-tab,tabwidth=2 diff=php linguist-language=php
    +
     # Define binary file attributes.
     # - Do not treat them as text.
     # - Include binary diff in patches instead of "binary files differ."
    

    To .gitattributes so that git doesn't complain about whitespace errors in the new baseline file. This is because PHPStan's baseline generator uses tabs whereas we tell git that that is a whitespace error for PHP. Going to fix this on commit. I checked with @longwave first.

    Committed f9f0971 and pushed to 11.x. Thanks!
    Committed 4517fd1 and pushed to 10.3.x. Thanks!
    Committed a3b7bc2 and pushed to 10.2.x. Thanks!

    I think we also need to think about #21 a bit more especially before we merge the monster.

    Backported to 10.2.x in order to make supporting that branch and 10.3.x and 11.x simpler.

  • Status changed to Fixed 4 months ago
  • Getting a failing test: https://git.drupalcode.org/issue/drupal-3427388/-/jobs/1049195/raw

    ---- Drupal\Tests\ComposerIntegrationTest ----
    
    
    Status    Group      Filename          Line Function                            
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [31mFail      Other      phpunit-130.xml      0 Drupal\Tests\ComposerIntegrationTes
    [0m    PHPUnit Test failed to complete; Error: PHPUnit 9.6.15 by Sebastian
        Bergmann and contributors.
        
        Testing Drupal\Tests\ComposerIntegrationTest
        ........S...........................F......................       59 / 59
        (100%)
        
        Time: 00:00.042, Memory: 6.00 MB
        
        There was 1 failure:
        
        1) Drupal\Tests\ComposerIntegrationTest::testExpectedScaffoldFiles with
        data set #1 ('.gitattributes', 'assets/scaffold/files/gitattributes',
        '[project-root]')
        Scaffold source and destination files must have the same contents.
        Failed asserting that two strings are equal.
        --- Expected
        +++ Actual
        @@ @@
         *.xml     text eol=lf
        whitespace=blank-at-eol,-blank-at-eof,-space-before-tab,tab-in-indent,tabwidth=2\n
         *.yml     text eol=lf
        whitespace=blank-at-eol,-blank-at-eof,-space-before-tab,tab-in-indent,tabwidth=2\n
         \n
        +# PHPStan's baseline uses tabs instead of spaces.\n
        +core/.phpstan-baseline.php text eol=lf
        whitespace=blank-at-eol,-blank-at-eof,-space-before-tab,tabwidth=2 diff=php
        linguist-language=php\n
        +\n
         # Define binary file attributes.\n
         # - Do not treat them as text.\n
         # - Include binary diff in patches instead of "binary files differ."\n
        
        /builds/issue/drupal-3427388/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Framework/Constraint/Equality/IsEqual.php:94
        /builds/issue/drupal-3427388/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/ComposerIntegrationTest.php:205
        /builds/issue/drupal-3427388/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Framework/TestResult.php:728
        /builds/issue/drupal-3427388/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Framework/TestSuite.php:684
        /builds/issue/drupal-3427388/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Framework/TestSuite.php:684
        /builds/issue/drupal-3427388/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/TextUI/TestRunner.php:651
        /builds/issue/drupal-3427388/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/TextUI/Command.php:144
        /builds/issue/drupal-3427388/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/TextUI/Command.php:97
        
        FAILURES!
        Tests: 59, Assertions: 424, Failures: 1, Skipped: 1.
    
    
    ---- Drupal\Tests\Composer\ComposerTest ----
    
    • alexpott โ†’ committed 5ab704c2 on 10.2.x
      Issue #3426548 follow-up: Convert the PHPStan baseline from NEON to PHP...
    • alexpott โ†’ committed df4680ff on 10.3.x
      Issue #3426548 follow-up: Convert the PHPStan baseline from NEON to PHP...
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