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@jrfnl jrfnl commented Sep 25, 2021

As of PHP 8.1, PHP will start throwing deprecation warnings along the lines of:

Deprecated:  Return type of [CLASS]::[METHOD]() should either be compatible with [PHP NATIVE INTERFACE]::[METHOD](): [TYPE], or the #[ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice

These type of deprecation notices relate to the Return types for internal methods RFC in PHP 8.1.

Basically, as of PHP 8.1, these methods in classes which implement PHP native interfaces are expected to have a return type declared.
The return type can be the same as used in PHP itself or a more specific type. This complies with the Liskov principle of covariance, which allows the return type of a child overloaded method to be more specific than that of the parent.

The return type for ArrayAccess::offsetGet() is supposed to be mixed, but as that is a PHP 8.0 type, it cannot yet be added.
Ref: https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.arrayaccess.php

With that in mind, I've added the annotation instead.

The other methods in this class were already declared with the appropriate return type.

Note: While attributes are a PHP 8.0 feature only, due to the syntax choice for #[], they will ignored in PHP < 8 and can be safely added.

As of PHP 8.1, PHP will start throwing deprecation warnings along the lines of:
```
Deprecated:  Return type of [CLASS]::[METHOD]() should either be compatible with [PHP NATIVE INTERFACE]::[METHOD](): [TYPE], or the #[ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice
```

These type of deprecation notices relate to the [Return types for internal methods RFC](https://wiki.php.net/rfc/internal_method_return_types) in PHP 8.1.

Basically, as of PHP 8.1, these methods in classes which implement PHP native interfaces are expected to have a return type declared.
The return type can be the same as used in PHP itself or a more specific type. This complies with the Liskov principle of covariance, which allows the return type of a child overloaded method to be more specific than that of the parent.

The return type for `ArrayAccess::offsetGet()` is supposed to be `mixed`, but as that is a PHP 8.0 type, it cannot yet be added.
Ref: https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.arrayaccess.php

With that in mind, I've added the annotation instead.

The other methods in this class were already declared with the appropriate return type.

Note: While attributes are a PHP 8.0 feature only, due to the syntax choice for `#[]`, they will ignored in PHP < 8 and can be safely added.
@jrfnl jrfnl force-pushed the feature/php-8.1-fix-notices branch 2 times, most recently from 42d1ffa to b1c6dd5 Compare September 25, 2021 19:30
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jrfnl commented Sep 25, 2021

The CI failure is due to the Slevomat CS check not yet recognizing classes being used in annotations. This should be reported upstream.

@rdohms Want me to add an exclude for this issue in the CS config ?

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rdohms commented Oct 13, 2021

sorry for delayed response @jrfnl
Adjusted the check in #58, will merge this via that one.

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@jrfnl jrfnl deleted the feature/php-8.1-fix-notices branch October 13, 2021 13:13
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