PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class App (in _ide_helper.php)

[timbroder]

What are you trying to achieve?

Run my first unit test

What do you get instead?

Provide console output if related. Use -vvv mode for more details.

composer exec codecept run unit usa_invoice_report.feature -vvv
Reading ./composer.json
Loading config file /Users/timbroder/.composer/config.json
Loading config file /Users/timbroder/.composer/auth.json
Loading config file ./composer.json
Checked CA file /private/etc/ssl/cert.pem: valid
Executing command (/Users/timbroder/workspace/kidfund/web): git branch --no-color --no-abbrev -v
Reading /Users/timbroder/.composer/composer.json
Loading config file /Users/timbroder/.composer/config.json
Loading config file /Users/timbroder/.composer/auth.json
Loading config file /Users/timbroder/.composer/composer.json
Loading config file /Users/timbroder/.composer/auth.json
Reading /Users/timbroder/.composer/auth.json
Reading /Users/timbroder/workspace/kidfund/web/vendor/composer/installed.json
Reading /Users/timbroder/.composer/vendor/composer/installed.json
Running 1.3.2 (2017-01-27 18:23:41) with PHP 5.6.29 on Darwin / 16.3.0
> __exec_command: codecept 'run' 'unit' 'usa_invoice_report.feature'
Executing command (CWD): codecept 'run' 'unit' 'usa_invoice_report.feature'
Codeception PHP Testing Framework v2.2.8
Powered by PHPUnit 4.8.27 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Unit Tests (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------
- First Feature: First ScenarioPHP Fatal error:  Cannot redeclare class App in /Users/timbroder/workspace/kidfund/web/_ide_helper.php on line 1096
PHP Fatal error:  Cannot mix bracketed namespace declarations with unbracketed namespace declarations in /Users/timbroder/workspace/kidfund/web/vendor/symfony/debug/Exception/FatalErrorException.php on line 12

Provide test source code if related

public function firstScenario()
    {
        print("HI");
    }

At the top of my _ide_helper.php file, there is an exit that doesn't seem to process with codeception. This file should be ignored

/**
 * A helper file for Laravel 5, to provide autocomplete information to your IDE
 * Generated for Laravel 5.2.45 on 2017-02-03.
 *
 * @author Barry vd. Heuvel <barryvdh@gmail.com>
 * @see https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper
 */

namespace {
    exit("This file should not be included, only analyzed by your IDE");

    class App extends \Illuminate\Support\Facades\App{

Details

• Codeception version: 2.2.8
• PHP Version: 5.6.29
• Operating System: macOS 10.12.2 (16C68)
• Installation type: Composer
• List of installed packages (composer show)

aws/aws-sdk-php                       3.19.3                                  AWS SDK for PHP - Use Amazon Web Services in your PHP project
barryvdh/laravel-debugbar             V2.2.3                                  PHP Debugbar integration for Laravel
barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper           v2.2.3                                  Laravel IDE Helper, generates correct PHPDocs for all Facade classes, to improve auto-completion.
barryvdh/reflection-docblock          v2.0.4                                  
behat/behat                           dev-master 762a074                      Scenario-oriented BDD framework for PHP 5.3
behat/gherkin                         v4.4.1                                  Gherkin DSL parser for PHP 5.3
behat/mink                            dev-master a88582e                      Browser controller/emulator abstraction for PHP
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behat/mink-extension                  dev-master 694c9ee                      Mink extension for Behat
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classpreloader/classpreloader         3.0.0                                   Helps class loading performance by generating a single PHP file containing all of the autoloaded files for a specific ...
codeception/codeception               2.2.8                                   BDD-style testing framework
container-interop/container-interop   1.1.0                                   Promoting the interoperability of container objects (DIC, SL, etc.)
davibennun/laravel-push-notification  dev-community 87ba388                   Laravel package to send push notifications to mobile devices (apns, gcm)
dingo/api                             dev-master cac67ab                      A RESTful API package for the Laravel and Lumen frameworks.
dingo/blueprint                       dev-master d37fb74                      API Blueprint documentation generator.
dnoegel/php-xdg-base-dir              0.1                                     implementation of xdg base directory specification for php
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way/generators                        dev-feature/laravel-five-stable a358bb4 Rapidly generate resources, migrations, models, and much more.
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• Suite configuration:

codeception.yml

actor: Tester
paths:
    tests: tests
    log: tests/_output
    data: tests/_data
    support: tests/_support
    envs: tests/_envs
settings:
    bootstrap: _bootstrap.php
    colors: true
    memory_limit: 1024M
extensions:
    enabled:
        - Codeception\Extension\RunFailed
modules:
    config:
        Db:
            dsn: ''
            user: ''
            password: ''
            dump: tests/_data/dump.sql
        Laravel5:
            environment_file: .env.phpunit
            run_database_migrations: true
            cleanup: true

unit.suite.yml

# Codeception Test Suite Configuration
#
# Suite for unit (internal) tests.

class_name: UnitTester
modules:
    enabled:
        - Laravel5:
          cleanup: false # can't wrap into transaction
        - Asserts
        - \Helper\Unit

[Naktibalda]

It looks like an issue of your application code.

[timbroder]

@Naktibalda is there a way I can tell codeception to ignore that file?

If I remove it, it runs fine

[DavertMik]

The question is why in hell this file is being loaded. I promise you, Codeception doesn't scan your directories for all possible PHP files to load them. Maybe it is loaded by Composer?

Could you run the Codeception directly:

./vendor/bin/codecept run

[timbroder]

That didn't fix it but I was able to track it down

What happened:

My Laravel migrator was set up with run_database_migrations: true but I had not specified database_migrations_path and it looks like this defaults to the root of the project, where laravel was scooping up *.php file to see if it contained a migration

I think that the default of database_migrations_path should be database/migrations where Laravel defaults it to

What do you think? I can open a PR with that

[DavertMik]

Wow, yes. Looks like a bug! Executing all PHP files is total nonsense. Thanks for tracking, yes, send a PR

[janhenkgerritsen]

The reason I left the default value for the database_migrations_path config variable as an empty string is that this will result in the default Laravel migration path due to this code.

However, it seems this code was only added for the 5.3 release of Laravel with this commit.

From the details you specified with your issue I can see you are using Laravel 5.2, and in Laravel 5.2 and before this check is used to determine the path.

So I think the easiest fix for this problem is to set the default value for the database_migrations_path config variable to null instead of an empty string. Can you try this out and let me know if this solution fixes your problem?

[timbroder]

@janhenkgerritsen sorry I saw the other thread before this one. Yes, changing the default to null fixes it.

I'll update the PR

[timbroder]

@janhenkgerritsen PR #3991 updated with your suggestion

[janhenkgerritsen]

I just merged your PR. Thanks for taking the time to investigate this issue and submitting a PR.