chore(legacy): raise PHPStan to level 9#100
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Raise the analysis level from 8 to 9 and regenerate the baseline. Level 9 adds strict handling of the `mixed` type. It produced 1201 new errors across 203 files, of which 1191 are mixed-related (casting mixed to string, accessing offsets on mixed, passing mixed where a typed parameter is expected). The remaining 10 are array-shape return-type mismatches. All are baselined. A targeted scan of the only categories that can fault at runtime (foreach over a non-iterable mixed, property access on mixed) found no real bugs: each value is guaranteed iterable by a Symfony input flag (VALUE_IS_ARRAY / IS_ARRAY), an empty()/isset() guard, a json_decode null check, the CLI's own embedded config, or the fixed shape of the RELATIONSHIPS environment variable. The remaining mixed errors stem from untyped API responses and YAML config arrays whose shape PHPStan cannot infer, not from runtime faults. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
This PR raises the legacy PHP CLI’s PHPStan strictness from level 8 to level 9 and updates the PHPStan baseline accordingly, keeping the current legacy codebase passing static analysis at the new level.
Changes:
- Bump PHPStan
levelfrom 8 to 9 for the legacy PHP CLI. - Regenerate
phpstan-baseline.neonto reflect the new level 9 findings.
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legacy/phpstan.neon |
Raises PHPStan analysis level to 9 and continues to include the baseline. |
legacy/phpstan-baseline.neon |
Regenerated baseline to ignore newly reported level 9 issues. |
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Heads-up while reviewing the baselined level-9 errors: one of them is a real runtime bug, not annotation noise. The regenerated baseline includes: That corresponds to It sits in the mixed-passed-to-typed-parameter category, which the bug scan in this PR's description didn't cover (that scan looked at foreach-over-mixed and property-access-on-mixed), so it's not contradicted — but it's a concrete example that this category can fault at runtime, so it may be worth a second look before baselining the rest wholesale. Once #126 merges, this baseline entry (count 1 for VariableGetCommand.php) becomes obsolete and should be dropped on rebase, or PHPStan will report an unmatched ignore. |
Raises the legacy PHP CLI's PHPStan analysis level from 8 to 9 and regenerates the baseline.
What changed
legacy/phpstan.neon:level: 8→level: 9legacy/phpstan-baseline.neon: regenerated (1403 errors baselined)Findings
Level 9 enforces strict handling of the
mixedtype. It produced 1201 new errors across 203 files:mixed-related — castingmixedto string, accessing offsets onmixed, and passingmixedto typed parameters. These come from untyped API responses and YAML config arrays whose shape PHPStan cannot infer.should return array<string, X> but returns array<string, array>).All are baselined.
Bug scan
I ran a targeted scan over the only categories that can actually fault at runtime —
foreachover a non-iterablemixed(20 sites) and property access onmixed(3 sites) — reading the source at each location. No real bugs were found. In every case the value is guaranteed iterable by one of:VALUE_IS_ARRAY/InputArgument::IS_ARRAY),empty()/isset()guard,json_decodenull check,RELATIONSHIPSenvironment variable.The remaining
mixederrors are annotation noise, not runtime faults, so no fixes or integration tests were needed.🤖 Generated with Claude Code