Many problems with Dependabot this month. Phpstan introduced a lot of new "errors". These are now fixed or annotated. I combined this with a change to require comments for `phpstan-ignore`. These won't always be useful, but I think requiring them makes sense.
Tcpdf is more of a non-update. Our composer.json specified `^6.5`. For some reason, Dependabot decided it was okay to change that to `^6.5||^7.0`, which seems presumptuous. (One of the triggers was probably the elimination of Php8.1, since the new product requires 8.2+.) Tcpdf is nominally deprecated, replaced by tc-lib-pdf. Tcpdf 7 passes control to the new product. However, the upgrade is not straightforward. The user needs to supply font files which were formerly distributed with the product, and a code change to define a (shudder) global constant is required. Consequently, Dependabot's upgrade failed its unit tests. While I may evaluate what might be needed at some point in the future, for now I am just updating composer.json to reject Tcpdf 7+.
With PhpUnit 10 came the ability to use Php attributes rather than doc-block annotations for things like "data provider". PhpUnit 11 deprecates the use of annotations, and PhpUnit 12 will not not permit their use. Since PhpUnit 11 requires Php8.2+, we cannot adopt it as long as we support Php8.1, which will continue to be the case for some time. However, there is no penalty for early adoption.
Php-cs-fixer can use:
```
'php_unit_attributes' => ['keep_annotations' => false],
```
This allows us to run `composer fix` to automate all the needed changes. No manual changes were needed for any of the test members.
With this change, PhpUnit 9 can no longer be used with the test suite. File composer.json is updated to reflect that reality, and phpunit9.xml.dist, which has been supplied in case anyone needed to use PhpUnit 9, is no longer required, and is thus deleted. For now, PhpUnit 11 is not being added as a possibility.
No source code is changed in this PR.
Improve documentation within program by making explicit what types of values are allowed for variables described as "mixed". In order to avoid broken functionality, this is done mainly through doc-blocks. This will get us closer to Phpstan Level 9, but many changes will be needed before we can consider that.
Executable code change is to add 2 new methods to Cell - `getValueString` and `getCalculatedValueString`, which are the same as the methods without the String suffix, except that they always return a string result. These are invoked at several places in the code where it makes sense, in particular by Writer code.
Change "mixed" declarations to more accurate types in test members; in particular, change those that would be flagged if we were to run Phpstan at level 9 (we currently run level 8). I may or may not follow up with source code (over 700 level-9 problems remain for src), but, as with strict typing, there is no reason to avoid the effort for test members.
It was necessary to update some doc blocks in src to accommodate this change. However, no executable code is touched.
While we might never be able to have 100% of our code strict, we can at
the very least do it for all of our tests. This ensures that our tests
are using our API with the types as intended by the test author, and not
silently be cast to what our API requires.
And quite a bit more manual changes. The idea is that typing of our
tests can be a bit more loose, so we assume PHPDoc is mostly correct. If
that happens to be wrong, it should be caught by the tests themselves.
Successor to PR #3523. There are 494 single-line changes (`public function provider` to `public static function provider`) in this PR. None of these were made manually; they were all created with the following script (adapted from
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25909820/how-to-recursively-iterate-through-files-in-php):
```php
$dir = 'C:/git/unit10prep2/tests/PhpSpreadsheetTests';
$it = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir);
// Loop through files
foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator($it) as $file) {
if ($file->getExtension() === 'php') {
$contents = file_get_contents($file);
$new = preg_replace('/public function (\\w*)([Pp])rovider/', 'public static function $1$2rovider', $contents);
if ($new !== $contents) {
echo "changing $file\n";
file_put_contents($file, $new);
}
}
}
```
After this PR, there will be one more, with a small number of test changes, and enabling PhpUnit 10 for Php 8.1+.
Current implementation for all methods that take a single cell reference argument:
- `setCellValue()`
- `setCellValueExplicit()`
- `getCell()`
- `cellExists()`
- `setBreak()`
- `freezePane()`
- `getComment()`
Also introducing a CellRange object to work with similar cases for methods that accept a cell range rather than simply a cell address; and RowRange/ColumnRange objects for those cases.
Still need to apply to methods that accept a cell range or single cell:
- `mergeCells()`
- `unmergeCells()`
- `protectCells()`
- `unprotectCells()`
- `setAutoFilter()`
Then there's a few special cases that accept row and column ranges, not simply cell ranges; or a series of cell ranges.
oleibman
Adrien Crivelli
MarkBaker