Skip to content

Build/QA: Retire booleanOr.alwaysTrue PHPStan baseline - #14037

Closed
huzaifaalmesbah wants to merge 3 commits into
WordPress:trunkfrom
huzaifaalmesbah:phpstan/retire-boolean-or-always-true
Closed

huzaifaalmesbah wants to merge 3 commits into
WordPress:trunkfrom
huzaifaalmesbah:phpstan/retire-boolean-or-always-true

Conversation

@huzaifaalmesbah

@huzaifaalmesbah huzaifaalmesbah commented Oct 6, 2026 •

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

✅ Committed in r64335 (4be1db5).


Description

Retires the booleanOr.alwaysTrue PHPStan baseline in WordPress core by annotating WP_HTML_Processor::next_token() with @phpstan-impure.

WP_HTML_Processor::next_token() advances the HTML processor state and yields different tokens on consecutive calls. Without the @phpstan-impure annotation, PHPStan's purity inference assumed that successive calls inside iteration or boolean expressions would produce identical results. This caused PHPStan to flag || expressions as always true in callers like WP_Block::replace_html().

Adding @phpstan-impure accurately conveys the state mutation to PHPStan, which eliminates false positive purity assumptions across the codebase, resolves associated errors in booleanNot.alwaysTrue and deadCode.unreachable, and completely retires booleanOr.alwaysTrue.neon.

Testing Instructions

  1. Run static analysis:

    composer phpstan

    Confirm 0 errors are found and booleanOr.alwaysTrue.neon is no longer needed.

  2. Run PHPCS:

    vendor/bin/phpcs src/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-processor.php

    Confirm standards compliance.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65817

Use of AI Tools

AI assistance: Yes
Tool(s): Google Antigravity
Model(s): Gemini 3.8 Flash
Used for: Researching static analysis reports and drafting initial baseline diffs; all logic, type declarations, and analysis results were manually investigated, verified, and run locally by me.

@github-actions

github-actions Bot commented Oct 6, 2026 •

Copy link
Copy Markdown

The following accounts have interacted with this PR and/or linked issues. I will continue to update these lists as activity occurs. You can also manually ask me to refresh this list by adding the props-bot label.

Core Committers: Use this line as a base for the props when committing in SVN:

Props huzaifaalmesbah, westonruter.

To understand the WordPress project's expectations around crediting contributors, please review the Contributor Attribution page in the Core Handbook.

@github-actions

github-actions Bot commented Oct 6, 2026

Copy link
Copy Markdown

Test using WordPress Playground

The changes in this pull request can previewed and tested using a WordPress Playground instance.

WordPress Playground is an experimental project that creates a full WordPress instance entirely within the browser.

Some things to be aware of

  • All changes will be lost when closing a tab with a Playground instance.
  • All changes will be lost when refreshing the page.
  • A fresh instance is created each time the link below is clicked.
  • Every time this pull request is updated, a new ZIP file containing all changes is created. If changes are not reflected in the Playground instance,
    it's possible that the most recent build failed, or has not completed. Check the list of workflow runs to be sure.

For more details about these limitations and more, check out the Limitations page in the WordPress Playground documentation.

Test this pull request with WordPress Playground.

…lean-or-always-true

# Conflicts:
#	tests/phpstan/baselines/deadCode.unreachable.neon
…lean-or-always-true

# Conflicts:
#	phpstan.neon.dist
#	tests/phpstan/baselines/deadCode.unreachable.neon
@westonruter

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

Other proposed purity annotations are in #14095

I also want to acknowledge that it is not ideal to have to annotate functions and methods with these tags. Ideally we would find a better solution, as they seem to be primarily needed as a PHPStan tooling limitation. Like maybe we could have a separate index built up of which functions/methods are pure/impure that is used by a PHPStan extension to avoid having to annotate. This index could even be maybe built up programmatically on a regular basis so that it doesn't need manual tagging. This is something I'd like to explore in the future.

wporg-sync pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 13, 2026
PHPStan infers `WP_HTML_Processor::next_token()` as pure, so the result of `is_tag_closer()` before the matching-closer loop in the block bindings processor's `replace_rich_text()` method survives across the loop, even though each `next_token()` call advances the parser to a different token. The `||` in the check after the loop is then reported as always true, the negation within it as always true, and the code that follows as unreachable. Adding `@phpstan-impure`, as was done for `WP_HTML_Tag_Processor::next_tag()` in r61934 and for `WP_HTML_Tag_Processor::parse_next_tag()` in r63301, resolves all three baselined errors.

This empties the `booleanOr.alwaysTrue` baseline, so the file is removed along with its `includes` entry in `phpstan.neon.dist`.

Developed in #14037.
Follow-up to r61934, r63023, r63301.

Props huzaifaalmesbah, rejaulalomkhan, tstokes8040.
See #65817.


git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@64335 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
wporg-sync pushed a commit to WordPress/WordPress that referenced this pull request Oct 13, 2026
PHPStan infers `WP_HTML_Processor::next_token()` as pure, so the result of `is_tag_closer()` before the matching-closer loop in the block bindings processor's `replace_rich_text()` method survives across the loop, even though each `next_token()` call advances the parser to a different token. The `||` in the check after the loop is then reported as always true, the negation within it as always true, and the code that follows as unreachable. Adding `@phpstan-impure`, as was done for `WP_HTML_Tag_Processor::next_tag()` in r61934 and for `WP_HTML_Tag_Processor::parse_next_tag()` in r63301, resolves all three baselined errors.

This empties the `booleanOr.alwaysTrue` baseline, so the file is removed along with its `includes` entry in `phpstan.neon.dist`.

Developed in WordPress/wordpress-develop#14037.
Follow-up to r61934, r63023, r63301.

Props huzaifaalmesbah, rejaulalomkhan, tstokes8040.
See #65817.

Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@64335


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@63485 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants