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Bug #80229 assert_options should have "int" and "bool" for $value parameter PHPDoc
Submitted: 2020-10-13 14:54 UTC Modified: 2020-10-15 10:27 UTC
From: ondrej at mirtes dot cz Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Reflection related
PHP Version: 8.0.0rc1 OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2020-10-13 14:54 UTC] ondrej at mirtes dot cz 
Description:
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The function assert_options accepts integers and booleans as the second argument. Currently according to the stub's PHPDoc, it only accepts strings, callables and null. The PHPDoc should be corrected.

I guess the assert_options function can be called with either "1" or "true" for the same result...

Expected result:
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/** @param string|callable|int|bool|null $value */
function assert_options(int $option, $value = UNKNOWN) : array|object|int|string|null
{
}

Actual result:
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/** @param string|callable|null $value */
function assert_options(int $option, $value = UNKNOWN) : array|object|int|string|null
{
}

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 [2020-10-13 16:21 UTC] cmb@php.net 
There are likely some other functions with the same issue.  The
problem here is strict_types on vs. off.  In case of the latter
the current signature is correct; in case of the former, int and
bool are indeed missing.

Not sure how to resolve this.
 [2020-10-14 11:13 UTC] ondrej at mirtes dot cz 
I don't think this is related to strict_types: https://3v4l.org/Q2EuC

The PHP documentation even talks about 1 (integer) to be a default value, but "int" is missing in the PHPDoc.
 [2020-10-15 10:27 UTC] nikic@php.net 
The problem here is that assert_option internally treats the value as a string, which is why it was documented as such. Of course, the user would rather pass int/bool. This is a similar situation to ini_set, which also accepts a string, while something else might be more convenient.

TBH I think we should just mark this as a "mixed" argument. That matches the semantics more closely than some weird string|callable|int|bool|null union.
 [2020-10-17 09:33 UTC] kocsismate@php.net 
The following pull request has been associated:

Patch Name: Fix #80229: assert_options should have int and bool for parameter PHPDoc
On GitHub:  https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6348
Patch:      https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6348.patch
 [2020-10-17 09:41 UTC] kocsismate@php.net 
> TBH I think we should just mark this as a "mixed" argument.

I came to the same conclusion a few days ago when I was thinking about this problem. Although, I was slightly concerned that the mixed type is used when it's not 100% correct. But that's sure, it's the closest approximation of string|callable|int|bool|null that we can add easily.
 [2020-10-17 10:01 UTC] kocsismate@php.net 
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=f076ab0c0cd352cdd70040ba50d40cd229a463ad
Log: Fix #80229: assert_options should have int and bool for parameter PHPDoc
 [2020-10-17 10:01 UTC] kocsismate@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed
 [2020-10-17 10:02 UTC] kocsismate@php.net 
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=f076ab0c0cd352cdd70040ba50d40cd229a463ad
Log: Fix #80229: assert_options should have int and bool for parameter PHPDoc
 
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