Fatal error following instructions

Hi Dave

Thanks for posting this issue.

I have this working locally but I am using with

            "name": "drupal/social_api",
            "version": "3.1.0",

I have not really looked into this but it sounds like something may have broken this in social_api 4.x

It looks like the signature has changed on 4.x branch. I n particular sdk is a mixed type. mixed type was introduced in php 8.0. Probably this needs updating so that the child class has the same.

e.g.

3.x

 /**
   * Sets the underlying SDK library.
   *
   * @return mixed
   *   The initialized 3rd party library instance.
   *
   * @throws \Drupal\social_api\SocialApiException
   *   If the SDK library does not exist or other validation fails.
   */
  abstract protected function initSdk(): mixed;

4.x

  /**
   * The SDK client.
   *
   * @var mixed
   */
  protected mixed $sdk = NULL;

I think the quick fix (and to check this) would be to make sure you are using social post 3.x

e.g. in your project require

"drupal/social_post": "^3.0",

1. Probably need to specify a version of social_post that is compatible currently 3.x
2. Test with 4.x version and a make sure signature is the same
3. Make 4.x compatible

Also created 1.0.0 release

Sorry previous comments about the signature were incorrect. Please ignore.

One thing I was wondering is how you managed to install social_api 4.x as from what I can see social_post has dependency of 3.x?

The latest version of social_post is still 3.x afict

https://git.drupalcode.org/project/social_post/-/blob/3.x/composer.json?...

Ok so for social api 4.x we have social_api/src/Plugin/NetworkInterface.php

https://git.drupalcode.org/project/social_api/-/blob/4.0.x/src/Plugin/Ne...

<?php

namespace Drupal\social_api\Plugin;

use Drupal\Component\Plugin\PluginInspectionInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Plugin\ContainerFactoryPluginInterface;

/**
 * Defines an interface for Social Network plugins.
 */
interface NetworkInterface extends PluginInspectionInterface, ContainerFactoryPluginInterface {

  /**
   * Gets the underlying SDK library.
   *
   * @return mixed
   *   The SDK client.
   */
  public function getSdk(): mixed;

}

where as in 3.x branch it is just:

<?php

namespace Drupal\social_api\Plugin;

use Drupal\Component\Plugin\PluginInspectionInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Plugin\ContainerFactoryPluginInterface;

/**
 * Defines an interface for Social Network plugins.
 */
interface NetworkInterface extends PluginInspectionInterface, ContainerFactoryPluginInterface {

  /**
   * Gets the underlying SDK library.
   *
   * @return mixed
   *   The SDK client.
   */
  public function getSdk();

}

Notice how the signature has changed

in

we have

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  protected function initSdk() {
    $class_name = '\Abraham\TwitterOAuth\TwitterOAuth';
    if (!class_exists($class_name)) {
      throw new SocialApiException(sprintf('The PHP SDK for X could not be found. Class: %s.', $class_name));
    }

    /** @var \Drupal\social_post_x\Settings\XPostSettings $settings */
    $settings = $this->settings;

    retu

so perhaps this need to be updated so that we have

protected function initSdk(): mixed {

That said I am still not sure why you have social_api 4.x installed?

Ok so it looks like social_post 4.x that is compatible with social_api 4.x is in the works.

https://www.drupal.org/project/social_post/issues/3307661 💬 Support Social API v4 RTBC

Perhaps it makes sense to add a a new branch/tag that supports that?