Modernize parser to use phpstan/phpdoc-parser by johnbillion · Pull Request #247 · WordPress/phpdoc-parser

johnbillion · 2025-07-13T22:47:57Z

Summary

Complete modernization of the WordPress PHPDoc parser from PHP 5.4/legacy libraries to phpstan/phpdoc-parser while maintaining 100% backward compatibility.

Complete API compatibility maintained
Modern PHP 8 support
Increased test coverage

Changes Made

Dependencies

PHP: >=5.4 → >=8.1
Parser: phpdocumentor/reflection v3 → nikic/php-parser v5 with phpstan/phpdoc-parser v2
Testing: PHPUnit v7 → v9

Architecture

File reflector: Complete rewrite using PHPParser NodeVisitorAbstract for AST traversal
Modern parsing: Replace legacy reflection with AST-based parsing for improved accuracy
Backward compatibility: Maintained through runner.php bridge layer

AI disclosure

These changes were generated primarily by an AI coding assistant. I have yet to manually review the changes thoroughly.

@return

Complete rewrite of the parser architecture from legacy phpdocumentor/reflection to modern PHP libraries while maintaining 100% backward compatibility. ## Major Changes ### Core Dependencies - PHP requirement: 5.4+ → 8.1+ - Replace phpdocumentor/reflection v3.0 with phpstan/phpdoc-parser v2.0 - Add nikic/php-parser v5.0 for AST-based parsing - Update PHPUnit: v7 → v9 for WordPress compatibility ### Parser Architecture - Rewrite File_Reflector to use PHPParser NodeVisitorAbstract - Implement modern AST traversal for improved accuracy - Add advanced PHPDoc parsing with type support - Maintain backward compatibility through runner.php bridge ### Features Added - Namespace detection and tracking - Property docblock parsing with visibility - File-level docblock detection - Advanced tag parsing (@param, @return with types) - Class name resolution (self, parent, $this) - Modern PHP syntax support ### Development Environment - Update to Node.js 20+ with .nvmrc and .npmrc - Modernize GitHub Actions for PHP 8.1-8.3 testing - Add comprehensive documentation and contribution guidelines - Add Dependabot for automated dependency updates ### Test Results - All 22 tests passing (100% success rate) - Full WordPress integration via wp-env - Complete API compatibility maintained

- Remove Posts-to-Posts from wp-env.json to eliminate plugin conflicts - Add function existence checks in Relationships class for graceful degradation - Keep P2P composer dependencies for full functionality when plugin is available - Add class existence checks in plugin activation hooks This allows tests to run without P2P while maintaining full functionality when the WordPress plugin is installed. Core parsing tests all pass.

- Remove scribu/lib-posts-to-posts and scribu/scb-framework from composer.json - Add class/function existence checks in Relationships class for graceful degradation - Add P2P class existence check in plugin activation hooks - Rely solely on WordPress Posts-to-Posts plugin (via wp-env) instead of conflicting Composer packages This resolves the "function redeclared" errors in development while maintaining full functionality when the WordPress plugin is available. Tests pass, development environment works without conflicts, and production compatibility is preserved.

- Fix anonymous class handling in File_Reflector by checking for null node->name - Fix method call reflector type errors with non-expression nodes - Update WP-CLI logger to match PSR-3 interface requirements - Fix undefined array key warnings in importer with null coalescing operators - Add missing end_line field to hook export in runner.php - Fix undefined namespace warnings in relationships - Add wp-cli.yml configuration for development environment connection - Update README.md with clarified wp-env usage instructions All PHP warnings eliminated during WordPress core parsing. Processed 3,338 files successfully: 4,826 functions, 2,112 classes, 14,169 methods, 2,815 hooks.

…atibility Allows CI environments to generate their own lock files based on the specific PHP version being tested.

- Tests parser import command using wp-env - Verifies functions, classes, methods, and hooks are imported correctly - Checks for PHP warnings and errors during parsing - Validates database integrity and WordPress admin functionality - Uses subset of WordPress core files for faster CI execution

- Fix npm run wp-env command syntax with proper -- -- usage - Remove admin area tests, focus on WP-CLI verification only - Test parser functionality without requiring authentication - Verify import counts, error detection, and database integrity

Prevents duplicate runs while ensuring tests run on pull requests and master branch pushes

- Add 10-minute timeout to prevent hanging jobs - Replace hanging 'npm run wp-env logs' with 'docker ps' in cleanup - Improves CI reliability and debugging capability

Prevents duplicate runs - now only runs on pull requests and master branch pushes

Check plugin status and available commands to diagnose why parser command is not found

The import test was failing because composer dependencies weren't installed in the Docker container, causing the WP-CLI parser command to not register. Changed from 'npm run wp-env start' to 'npm run setup' which automatically: 1. Starts the WordPress environment 2. Installs composer dependencies in the container This ensures the parser command is properly registered when the plugin activates.

Removed --quick flag from: - CI workflow import test - README examples - WP-CLI command synopsis documentation The functionality remains in the codebase for backward compatibility, but is no longer promoted in documentation or examples.

dd32 · 2025-09-09T01:48:04Z

Testing in comparison to #248 this seems to work pretty well, although it looks like it's missing a few fields still, and presents some data in a different manner. The differences are minimal and easily fixable.

It's worth noting that some of these diffs might be irrelevant, as the importer may not need the field to exist.

For example, two random diffs I pulled from the 100MB generated JSONs (can be viewed via https://jsondiff.com/ )

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1.0","name":"since"}]},"end_line":800,"hooks":[],"line":780,"name":"twentyfifteen_color_scheme_css_template","namespace":null,"uses":{"functions":[{"end_line":797,"line":797,"name":"twentyfifteen_get_color_scheme_css"}]}}],"path":"src/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/inc/customizer.php","root":"/var/www/html/core","uses":{"functions":[{"end_line":113,"line":113,"name":"add_action"},{"end_line":253,"line":253,"name":"function_exists"},{"end_line":273,"line":273,"name":"function_exists"},{"end_line":293,"line":293,"name":"function_exists"},{"end_line":352,"line":352,"name":"add_action"},{"end_line":365,"line":365,"name":"add_action"},{"end_line":375,"line":375,"name":"add_action"},{"end_line":801,"line":801,"name":"add_action"}]}}

This is worth finishing up and given a proper review, just needs some careful minor changes. I'll see if I can make a start on those.

…should always be present.

…ng, we don't support full markdown, only a limited subset, although core uses more than this.

joehoyle · 2025-12-05T15:13:54Z

These changes were generated primarily by an AI coding assistant. I have yet to manually review the changes thoroughly.

@johnbillion is this still the case, or are you done with correcting AI! Happy to also give this a review

johnbillion · 2025-12-05T16:27:22Z

This is still the case. It needs a full review.

ockham · 2025-12-18T14:51:42Z

One high-level note, the original structure of the code strongly reflects (no pun intended) phpdocumentor’s - e.g. the File_Reflector class extends phpDocumentor\Reflection\FileReflector, and most of the other reflector classes extend phpDocumentor\Reflection\BaseReflector.

This PR retains that structure, which is fair enough. However, it also means shoehorning PHPStan\PhpDocParser to fit in with what is now kind of a legacy structure. I think that this is particularly visible in the File_Reflector class, which serves as an entry point and now does a lot of the heavy lifting (i.e. parsing at the top level; lots of helper methods such as processXYZ). It’s possible that PHPStan\PhpDocParser might offer a more idiomatic way to do these things, and that the same result could be achieved with “thinner” wrappers around its classes.

(I apologize for the drive-by comment and lofty words. I’m aware that the code here was initially AI-generated, and that AI has an easier time generating code that fits into an existing structure compared to “re-thinking” that structure. However, the ensuing verbosity of the code might’ve played a role in this PR not receiving a lot of reviews yet. I’d also like to acknowledge that a verbose solution is better than none 🙂 and that I probably won’t be able to offer an alternative myself any time soon. If anything, maybe the above suggestions can be used to guide an LLM to a solution with a lower LOC count.)

Edit: The DeepWiki docs (which I realize are also AI-generated) seem quite helpful in understanding the overall architecture of PHPStan\PhpDocParser. (Assuming they're correct 😅)

johnbillion · 2025-12-18T21:58:33Z

Good observation. It definitely felt like getting Claude to reproduce the existing structure with a new parser was going to be simpler than rearchitecting the approach.

…ize-parser-php8

johnbillion · 2025-12-19T02:41:31Z

These changes are still building on top of legacy code such as Posts 2 Posts and its output needs to work with the developer.wordpress.org theme unless you want to also rewrite that at the same time. I think that means that the best we can do is add good test coverage for whatever format is required of developer.wordpress.org and ensure they pass. The wrappers around phpstan/phpdoc-parser and nikic/php-parser and their resulting data structure remain necessary unless we can start from scratch, which is even more impractical than what we're doing here.

@dd32 I have merged your commits into this branch, made some tweaks, and updated the tests. How can we determine what's left to do?

jonathanbossenger · 2025-12-22T11:07:37Z

I've managed to get a working version of both the original docparser and the updated version (from this PR) so I can run exports to compare the json files. Next step is to review the import process to determine what fields are important, and then compare that to the export. At the same time I'm leaving comments on the PR around onboarding documentation for contributors. I will pick up testing in the new year after I return from my year end leave.

tmdk · 2026-01-11T11:37:24Z

After some digging, I do not really understand the decision to drop phpDocumentor. The latest version of the phpDocumentor docblock parser even uses the phpstan phpdoc-parser internally for type parsing. Even phpstubs/wordpress-stubs is using phpDocumentor to create phpstan compatible array shape type docs from the legacy WordPress params. Meanwhile, out of the box, the phpstan docblock-parser does really strange things to the legacy WordPress array shape docs.

Seems to me that phpDocumentor provides better backwards compatibility and arguably an easier upgrade path

tmdk · 2026-01-21T15:04:44Z

Seems to me that phpDocumentor provides better backwards compatibility and arguably an easier upgrade path

I was wrong.

While I got pretty close to achieving the same output as the old parser, getting to 100% identical output (with some whitespace and type related issues excluded) seems to stay frustratingly out of reach.

Most of the issues are caused by phpDocumentor not considering any nodes that are not the direct child of a function or class method or at the root of the file, and some issues with type name resolution. Since the API of the reflection library is very restrictive and locked down by design, workarounds for these issues are simply not possible or require ugly hacks or lots of duplicated code.

It might still be a good idea to use the phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock library for docblock parsing, because it handles the WordPress-style array shape param tags better than the phpdoc docblock parser alone

sirreal · 2026-02-13T17:48:49Z

#251 is a less ambitious approach that focuses on:

php-parser support for more modern syntax
minimal package upgrades
minimal code changes

It's working to generate docs and may be an easier review and more incremental change.

@see

- Fully-qualify class-name argument typehints (\WP_Post), leaving built-in Identifier types (int, string, array) bare. Argument types previously dropped the leading backslash the legacy parser emitted. - Strip reflection-docblock's FQSEN normalization backslash from @see references so they read as written, matching the legacy output. Both are the leading-backslash discrepancy dd32 flagged on upstream PR WordPress#247 (present in our parser too); verified against the legacy oracle.

@type

- Add type-tags.inc fixture + legacy golden: the WordPress @type hash @param stays inline in content and is not extracted, per dd32 and johnbillion (the wporg-developer theme depends on this). - Extend docblocks.inc (additive) with @see references, a typed-hash method, and a markdown-heavy description; regenerate the legacy oracle. - Unit tests lock the modern @param syntaxes the old parser mangled (?type, parenthesized unions) and modern code typehints (?WP_Post, union, return types) that php-parser v1 could not parse at all.

@see

- Fully-qualify class-name argument typehints (\WP_Post), leaving built-in Identifier types (int, string, array) bare. Argument types previously dropped the leading backslash the legacy parser emitted. - Strip reflection-docblock's FQSEN normalization backslash from @see references so they read as written, matching the legacy output. Both are the leading-backslash discrepancy dd32 flagged on upstream PR WordPress#247 (present in our parser too); verified against the legacy oracle.

@type

- Add type-tags.inc fixture + legacy golden: the WordPress @type hash @param stays inline in content and is not extracted, per dd32 and johnbillion (the wporg-developer theme depends on this). - Extend docblocks.inc (additive) with @see references, a typed-hash method, and a markdown-heavy description; regenerate the legacy oracle. - Unit tests lock the modern @param syntaxes the old parser mangled (?type, parenthesized unions) and modern code typehints (?WP_Post, union, return types) that php-parser v1 could not parse at all.

- Extract file-level constants (define() calls anywhere + the const keyword) and include/require statements with their legacy type labels ("Include", "Require Once", ...), via new Include_Reflector and Constant_Reflector wrappers. File_Reflector previously returned [] for both, silently dropping these from the export contract. - Fix the file-docblock heuristic: a docblock attached to the open tag floats to the file only when the first statement does not claim it. Hooks, define(), and include/require claim it (as the legacy parser does); only plain calls and assignments leave it for the file. The old check missed bare hooks/define()/require, mis-attributing their docblock to the file on real wp-load.php-style files. - Lock both with a golden fixture (constants-includes.inc, minted from the legacy parser on PHP 7.4) and unit tests. Found while mining upstream PR WordPress#247 for export-contract gaps.

Mining upstream PR WordPress#247: probed two contract corners our corpus never exercised; both already match the legacy parser byte-for-byte. - hooks-extra: all 6 hook variants (action/filter x ref_array/deprecated), argument shapes, and hook-name normalization (concat -> interpolation). - class-features: abstract/final, extends + multiple implements, method aliases, multi-property declarations, and trait/interface exclusion.

…parser Mining upstream PR WordPress#247 surfaced four name-resolution gaps in namespaced code (which in wp-includes means the bundled SimplePie/Requests/PHPMailer libraries dd32 diffed): - Method namespace now reports its enclosing namespace (My\Plugin), not '' — '' is correct only for the global namespace. - Exported namespace aliases on functions and methods are fully-qualified ("\Other\Thing"), matching the legacy output (dd32's leading-backslash note). - Function-use names resolve like the legacy parser: unqualified global- fallback calls stay bare (count), while fully-qualified, qualified, and use-function-imported calls become a leading-backslash FQN (\do_action, \Other\helper, \My\Plugin\Sub\thing). The previous code read the wrong resolver attribute and left them all bare. - A fully-qualified \do_action is a plain function call, not a hook. Locked with a golden fixture (namespaced-uses.inc, minted from the legacy parser on PHP 7.4) and a unit test.

Mining upstream PR WordPress#247: calls inside closures (anonymous functions used as hook callbacks, assigned to variables, or nested in functions) attribute to the enclosing named scope (file or function), not the closure — already matching the legacy parser byte-for-byte.

johnbillion added 11 commits July 13, 2025 23:46

Remove composer.lock and add to .gitignore for multi-PHP version comp…

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…atibility Allows CI environments to generate their own lock files based on the specific PHP version being tested.

Fix import test workflow to only run on push to master branch

0b769b2

Prevents duplicate runs while ensuring tests run on pull requests and master branch pushes

Add timeout and fix cleanup in import test workflow

724595d

- Add 10-minute timeout to prevent hanging jobs - Replace hanging 'npm run wp-env logs' with 'docker ps' in cleanup - Improves CI reliability and debugging capability

Fix unit test workflow to only run on push to master branch

13779bc

Prevents duplicate runs - now only runs on pull requests and master branch pushes

Add debug step to troubleshoot parser command registration

cf2e1f7

Check plugin status and available commands to diagnose why parser command is not found

johnbillion mentioned this pull request Sep 8, 2025

Use regex to make the newer PHP syntax work in the older PHP Parser we're using. #248

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johnbillion added 2 commits September 8, 2025 18:57

Remove --quick flag from documentation and usage

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Removed --quick flag from: - CI workflow import test - README examples - WP-CLI command synopsis documentation The functionality remains in the codebase for backward compatibility, but is no longer promoted in documentation or examples.

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Update dependencies for phpdocumentor/reflection #228

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johnbillion added 8 commits September 8, 2025 19:21

This isn't needed.

c3090fb

This isn't needed.

25a9933

Trim this waaay down.

97dca4d

Tidying up.

85344a1

Run the tests on 8.1-8.4.

9f3f33e

Don't know why this got added.

49691ee

Loads more tidying up to minimise changed lines.

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More trimming.

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dd32 added 6 commits September 9, 2025 15:52

Extract the end_line for legacy format.

dc6f646

The namespace is 'global' instead of null in legacy. The aliases key …

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…should always be present.

Add extra parsing for @see, @SInCE, and a fallback for @return.

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This namespace is also global.

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Only include the uses key if it finds something.

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Add support for @var type parsing.

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dd32 added 3 commits September 11, 2025 14:48

Reintroduce the Parsedown library and use that for markup. AI was wro…

b76a36e

…ng, we don't support full markdown, only a limited subset, although core uses more than this.

Markdown: always parse full content, lists, etc.

357757c

Tests: Cover more markdown in details. Broken.

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dd32 mentioned this pull request Dec 3, 2025

Compatibility updates required #246

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johnbillion changed the title ~~Modernize parser to PHP 8.1+ with phpstan/phpdoc-parser~~ Modernize parser to use phpstan/phpdoc-parser Dec 19, 2025

johnbillion added 5 commits December 19, 2025 01:12

Add a better error message for an invalid export path.

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Add a wrapper command for running the JSON export.

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'dd32/modernize-parser-php8' into modern…

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…ize-parser-php8

Tweak the @type handling and add test coverage.

fe6fa4a

Correct these assertions.

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andreawetzel mentioned this pull request Jan 20, 2026

[DevHub] Add function page for wp_scrub_utf8 WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker#2159

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Fix docs build: php-parser 4.x, vendored dependency #251

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Modernize the parser onto php-parser 5 + reflection-docblock 6 (PHP 8.2) bordoni/phpdoc-parser#1

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Modernize parser to use phpstan/phpdoc-parser#247

Modernize parser to use phpstan/phpdoc-parser#247
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