ClassStructureSniff individual methods configuration

[maryo]

Hello. I'd like to have my PHPUnit protected function setUp method placed before public test methods. But it looks like it is not possible to configure something like an exception or a custom group or something like that. Do you want to support such a feature? I made them public as a workaround.

Thanks

[pscheit-lillydoo]

How would this be implemented? The ability to match several methods via regexp into a custom group, that one can then order in between the builtin groups?

If someone could draft a configuration, I would give it a try to implement

[nederdirk]

I'd also like something like this, could a (phpdoc) attribute like #[SlevomatCodingStandard\ClassStructure\Group('myCustomGroupName')] (and/or comparable PHPdoc tag) work to (optionally) override the automatically-determined group?

Something like (taken from a hypothetical datetime-library):

#[SlevomatCodingStandard\ClassStructure\Group('iso8601')]
public function toIso8601(): string
{
//should sort with other 'iso8601' tagged functions iff the 'iso8601' group is in the configuration, otherwise it should sort with the 'public methods'
}

#[SlevomatCodingStandard\ClassStructure\Group('iso8601')]
public static function fromIso8601(string $timestamp): DateTime
{
//should sort with other 'iso8601' tagged functions iff the 'iso8601' group is in the configuration, otherwise it should sort with the 'public static constructors'
}

[vhenzl]

It would also be good to be able to order/group methods by a specified PhpDoc tag (e.g. @api).

[saas786]

We face same issue.

class MyClass {
    public function __construct() {
        $this->boot();
    }

    private function boot() {}

}

OR

class MyClass {
    public function __construct() {
        $this->init();
    }

    private function init() {}

}

Either of these cases, I would like my boot() or init() to show up after __construct() but ClassStructureSniff moves it below other functions, sometimes at bottom of classes, which is not ideal. makes it hard to navigate the class.

would be nice if I could do something like:

<element value="constructor"/>
<element value="custom_boot"/>
or
<element value="custom_init"/>