Support nullable types (`@param ?string $rpcParamName`)

[TysonAndre]

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It's annoying and surprising to have to type @param string|null instead of @param ?string.

Checking if the first character of a type is ? and stripping that (and adding null) may be the quickest workaround, not sure if upgrading dependencies would help.

https://github.com/phpDocumentor/TypeResolver/ issue 31 seems related, phpdocumentor2 (project) does parse these.

[felixfbecker]

I've never seen that syntax before. Could you point me to docs about it?

[TysonAndre]

Filed https://github.com/phpDocumentor/fig-standards/issues/153

This is something that would make sense to me, but sadly not part of official standards yet.

• Didn't see anything in the mailing list for fig.
• PSR-5 doesn't include it, PSR-5 draft also hasn't been updated recently.

[VolCh]

@felixfbecker it is PHP7.1 nullable type declaration for parameters and return values syntax: PHP manual

[felixfbecker]

@VolCh this package only looks at @param tags