Fix PHP 8.1 "strlen(null)" exception which blocks creating a project with an empty Description field
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Authored by aklapper on May 2 2023, 19:20.

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T15331: PHP 8.1 "strlen(null)" exceptions block creating a project with an empty Description field

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rARC97e163187418: Fix PHP 8.1 "strlen(null)" exception which blocks creating a project with an…

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_stringlike() as a replacement for string-alike variables.

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

Closes first half of T15331

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Applied these two changes (one in Arcanist, one in Phorge). Project with empty Description field was created and /project/view/projectid/ rendered in web browser.

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aklapper created this revision.May 2 2023, 19:20

Owners added a reviewer: O1: Blessed Committers.May 2 2023, 19:20

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aklapper requested review of this revision.May 2 2023, 19:20

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B339: Diff 626.May 2 2023, 19:20

aklapper edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)May 2 2023, 19:23

Thanks for this patch.

This needs the usual stringlike() trick to make Phorge happy

Also it probably needs the phlog() trick suggested by avivey to make O1 happy

I would say, let's wait for what happens in D25157, then let's turn back here

I'm sorry for this waiting

src/utils/utils.php
903	The already existing PHPDoc was wrong. The `$corpus` parameter is not necessarily a string but can be a `PhutilSafeHTML` as can be see at line 928
911	Sadly it seems using `phutil_nonempty_string()` in this case can crash since `$corpus` can be an object. We probably need the `phutil_nonempty_stringlike()` trick instead.
928	Interestingly this line highlights that `$corpus` is not always a string

This revision now requires changes to proceed.May 3 2023, 09:38

aklapper added a task: T15331: PHP 8.1 "strlen(null)" exceptions block creating a project with an empty Description field.May 3 2023, 17:03

Use phutil_nonempty_stringlike; update doc comment.

Not sure if some additional phlog code is wanted or needed here - what exactly do we want to find out, apart from string and PhutilSafeHTML being input types?

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B411: Diff 735.May 13 2023, 11:47

valerio.bozzolan mentioned this in Wikimedia Hackaton 2023 Athens Code Sprint.May 18 2023, 10:16

Accepting (but not as O1) since this seems totally legit to me now. Thanks for your update

I don't approve as O1 because I know probably somebody would like to share different opinions.