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Fix PHP 8.1 "strlen(null)" and "array_slice(null)" exceptions which block typeahead completion proposals
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Authored by aklapper on May 1 2023, 18:09.
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Summary

strlen() was used in Phabricator to check if a generic value is a non-empty string.
This behavior is deprecated since PHP 8.1. Phorge adopts phutil_nonempty_string() as a replacement.

Note: this may highlight other absurd input values that might be worth correcting
instead of just ignoring. If phutil_nonempty_string() throws an exception in your
instance, report it to Phorge to evaluate and fix that specific corner case.

array_slice() no longer accepts passing null as a parameter.
This behavior is deprecated since PHP 8.1. Adding an if clause; not using a
Null Coalescing Operator (PHP 7+) as Phorge currently still supports PHP 5.5.

Closes T15321

Test Plan

Applied these two changes on top of D25147. Afterwards, typeahead autocompletion
proposal dropdowns for the three fields "Assigned To", "Subscribers", "Tags" got
displayed in web browser.

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aklapper requested review of this revision.May 1 2023, 18:09

Thanks also for this patch.

Tested locally. No implosions.

It would be nice to understand where the parameters are populated, thought. But, this is fortunately probably out of the scope here, since getStr() should do the needed part important to us.

sgtm

src/applications/typeahead/controller/PhabricatorTypeaheadModularDatasourceController.php
42

✅ I was honestly not able to completely test the non-null values of $raw_parameters so I have not any idea about the intended semantic usage, but the getStr() method is supposed to return strings, so this seems very OK to me.

The method phutil_nonempty_string() will report any alien type, and this OK there.

src/applications/typeahead/datasource/PhabricatorTypeaheadCompositeDatasource.php
210–215

✅ FINALLY the IDEAL usage of a simple if() in PHP. Since the value "0" is assumed as false for weird reasons related to PHP, but here it's converted to the numerical 0 and it has LOT of sense.

Thanks for this.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 1 2023, 20:07