Phpactor 2023.01.21

I have tagged Phpactor 2023.01.21.

This release is a little bit later than normal as I completely forgot to do it last week.

Features ¶

Param docblock generation ¶

If there are any complex trivial types (e.g. generic types, or arrays) Phpactor will now suggest to generate default @param docblocks.

In addition the docblock updating code has been improved allowing us to update docblocks (previosuly Phpactor would only create them).

Support for integer ranges ¶

Phpactor will understand integer ranges, e.g. @param int<0, 10> $zeroToTen. It won’t do anything with the integer range information however, it will just be treated as a basic int type.

Fixes and Improvements ¶

Bug fixes:

• Allow class completion within constant declaration in class #1985 @przepompownia
• Do not suggest return type on __destruct #1992
• Do not report Prophecy methods as “not found” #2006
• Do not add NULL to type list (fixes search bug) #2009
• Create a real package for the tolerant-parser fork and use it #2033
• Also highlight use statements when hovering on class #2039 @mamazu
• Fix priotity of “internal” stub locator - facilitating enum completion #2040
• Require posix extension #2042 @dacianb
• Fix evaluation of replacement assignments #1705
• Fix crash on missing token in Indexer #2049 @vlada-dudr
• Fix missing compact use name false positive #2052
• Fix class-template<T> when not in 1st arg position #2054

Improvements:

• Support the Psalm cache #2046 @gbprod
• Support completion inside match expression #2051 @przepompownia
• Fixed typos in documentation #2050 @d-danilov
• Psalm Extension: allow info diagnostics to be hidden #2032 @gbprod
• Better docblock parsing and formatting #2004
• More liberal support for vendor tags #2011 @ging-dev
• Fix nested template type arguments #2016
• Fix importing of nested types #2009
• Reverts #1974 - which made the situation worse rather than better.
• Change default WR cache TTL from 5 seconds to 1 second to avoid race with diagnostics timeout.
• Add return tags to existing docblocks #1995
• Naive support for attribute completion #2001 @przepompownia
• Support union type from class-string variadic generic

Musings ¶

This month saw multiple contributions from several people. Since the previous release ~40 days ago I have worked on Phpactor for approximately 25 hours.

I started to look at better PHPUnit support (this release actually reintroduced the PHPUnit extension, but it’s not working great currently). I hope to add code actions to introduce setUp, tearDown and for generating new test methods with or without @dataProvider.

Phpactor isn’t winning prizes for being the fastest Language Server on the planet, in fact it’s a long way from being able to do that. I’m hoping to attempt to improve the static analysis engine and/or to offload realtime diagnostics into a separate process.