checkUninitializedProperties does not consider @required

[raalderink]

When enabling PHPStan's checkUninitializedProperties, using @required to autowire a public property, or through a public method will still mark the property as uninitialized, although Symfony's autowiring will make sure it isn't.

This is on; phpstan/phpstan 1.10.13 phpstan/phpstan-symfony 1.3.1

[ondrejmirtes]

Please contribute an extension as per https://phpstan.org/developing-extensions/always-read-written-properties. Thanks.

[raalderink]

Okay, cool. This helps implement the case for public properties with @required or #[Required]. There is another strategy to autowire: through public methods with this annotation or attribute.

I've found \PHPStan\Node\ClassPropertiesNode, which calls \PHPStan\Rules\Properties\ReadWritePropertiesExtension::isInitialized. ClassPropertiesNode has all information needed to implement this, in getPropertyUsages. The PropertyWrite information would allow access to all setting methods, which could be checked for the annotation/attribute. This information, nor the Node/Scope, are made available to the extension, meaning that there is no way to access the setting methods.

How should I approach this?

[ondrejmirtes]

Please show a piece of code you’re talking about - both analysed and the extension you’re writing.

[raalderink]

This is an example piece of code to analyse;

<?php

class Test
{
    /** @required */
    public string $one;

    protected int $two;

    /**
     * @required
     */
    public function setTwo(int $value): void
    {
        $this->two = $value * 2;
    }
}

This is the extension thus far;

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Infrastructure\PhpStan;

use PHPStan\Node\ClassStatementsGatherer;
use PHPStan\Reflection\Php\PhpPropertyReflection;
use PHPStan\Reflection\PropertyReflection;
use PHPStan\Rules\Properties\ReadWritePropertiesExtension;
use PHPStan\Type\FileTypeMapper;
use Symfony\Contracts\Service\Attribute\Required;

class SymfonyRequiredInitialization implements ReadWritePropertiesExtension
{
    private FileTypeMapper $fileTypeMapper;

    public function __construct(FileTypeMapper $fileTypeMapper)
    {
        $this->fileTypeMapper = $fileTypeMapper;
    }

    public function isAlwaysRead(PropertyReflection $property, string $propertyName): bool
    {
        return false;
    }

    public function isAlwaysWritten(PropertyReflection $property, string $propertyName): bool
    {
        return false;
    }

    public function isInitialized(PropertyReflection $property, string $propertyName): bool
    {
        // If the property is public, check for @required on the property itself
        if ($property->isPublic()) {
            if ($property->getDocComment() !== null) {
                $phpDoc = $this->fileTypeMapper->getResolvedPhpDoc(null, null, null, null, $property->getDocComment());

                foreach ($phpDoc->getPhpDocNodes() as $node) {
                    // @required annotation is available, meaning this property is always initialized
                    if (count($node->getTagsByName('@required')) > 0) {
                        return true;
                    }
                }
            }

            // Check for the attribute version
            if ($property instanceof PhpPropertyReflection && count($property->getNativeReflection()->getAttributes(Required::class)) > 0) {
                return true;
            }
        } else {
            // 1. Get property writes of $property
            // 2. Collect annotations or attributes of the function that writes to $property
            // 3. Check if any annotation or attribute sets the @required or #[Required]
            
            // This will not work because we do not have a node or scope
            // $classStatementsGatherer = new ClassStatementsGatherer($property->getDeclaringClass(), fn () => null);
        }

        return false;
    }
}

The top part, if ($property->isPublic()) {, is functional (although I'm sure there's ways to improve it). The else part is where the issue lies. The $one in the analysed code will pass correctly, whereas $two will not, but should be as setTwo will make sure it is initialized.

[ondrejmirtes]

Yeah, this isn't great. I worry there would be performance implications by repeating the work of ClassStatementsGatherer there.

But there's something more promising to do - there's a setting additionalConstructors that 's used for example for PHPUnit's TestCase::setUp().

This setting is currently statically defined in the config, but we could create a new extension that would decide about "additional constructors" programatically.

Here's the relevant code: https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan-src/blob/1.11.x/src/Reflection/ConstructorsHelper.php

This is very similar thing we previously did for %stubFiles%: https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan-src/commit/2ba9332d29c1acdde0f85a2781308d2e8972f00e

[ondrejmirtes]

You can continue here now :) https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan/releases/tag/1.10.14

[raalderink]

I've created a new PR for this package now, which should cover this. However, I'm running into a couple things I'm not quite understanding how to solve at this moment. As you can see in the builds, I'm getting these errors;

Error: Although PHPStan\Reflection\Php\PhpPropertyReflection is covered by backward compatibility promise, this instanceof assumption might break because it's not guaranteed to always stay the same.
Error: Creating new PHPStan\Rules\Properties\UninitializedPropertyRule is not covered by backward compatibility promise. The class might change in a minor PHPStan version.
Error: Creating new PHPStan\Reflection\ConstructorsHelper is not covered by backward compatibility promise. The class might change in a minor PHPStan version.

I'm not sure how to fix these. I'm also seeing a couple of similar ones in the baseline, so would baselining these be OK?

Then there's this error;

Error: Class Symfony\Contracts\Service\Attribute\Required not found.

Seems to me like this one should be available, but I must be missing something here.