File/Dir `dev` flag priority?

[LastDragon-ru]

I faced a problem about File/Dir dev flag priority. Let's imagine that we have composer.json

{
  "autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
      "App\\": "path/to",
    }
  },
}

and we want to add path/to/dev-file.php as a dev dependency in composer-dependency-analyser.php:

$config->addPathToScan('path/to/dev-file.php', true)

Unfortunately, it will not work :( because the dev flag will be overwriten by autoload in

https://github.com/shipmonk-rnd/composer-dependency-analyser/blob/2a45e4e7f58f45bf8f63032fc2da04652aec48ff/src/Analyser.php#L278-L293

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I see a few options:

1) Provide access to ComposerJson in composer-dependency-analyser.php that will allow redefine order of scanned paths.

2) Do not override file dev flag by directory flag.

What do you think? Maybe I've missed something and there is another way? (except reimplementing ComposerJson...).

[janedbal]

I think the proper way is to process paths from shortest to longest. That way any more specific mark overrides the more genetic one no matter how those were added to the list.

[janedbal]

Fixed in https://github.com/shipmonk-rnd/composer-dependency-analyser/pull/142.

For older versions, you can disable automatic autoload and adjust the order of paths manually:

$config->disableComposerAutoloadPathScan()
    ->addPathToScan('path/to', false)
    ->addPathToScan('path/to/dev-file.php', true)

[LastDragon-ru]

Cool, I'll try it tomorrow. Thanks :)