10 [2/2]. Report a require that left the guard constant undefined

[nikolaystrikhar]

What: Loader::load() verifies the guard constant after the require_once and reports a missing one through _doing_it_wrong(), leaving loaded, the activation callback and every skip reason untouched.

Usage:

Function Nexcess\PluginAbsorber\Loader::load was called incorrectly:
The bundled plugin "give-recurring" was required and left
GIVE_RECURRING_VERSION undefined, so nothing stands a standalone
copy down. Define the guard constant at file scope, or correct
plugin_loaded_constant.

Why this way:

A guard nothing checks is a guarantee nobody has. The constant was only ever read before the require. A typo in the key, or a bundled plugin defining its constant from its own plugins_loaded callback, left the code in memory with no load guard — and the re-declaration fatal one activation away, while every counter said the load went perfectly.

A report, not a skip. The require happened and cannot be undone: the code is in memory, so the activation callback must still run and loaded must still fire. Announcing a skip would tell a host that running code is not there.

The name only ever arrives as a value. Sub_Plugin owns it, so no literal constant name enters src/ for Strauss's constant_prefix to rewrite.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Detects bundled files that load without defining their configured guard constant.
  • Reports malformed builds while allowing activation and loaded lifecycle events to continue.
  • Prevents unnecessary admin notices for this condition.
  • Continues loading surrounding plugins when one registration fails or duplicates an existing entry.
  • Handles registry configuration errors without unnecessarily stopping other plugin loading.

• Documentation

  • Clarified when the guard check occurs before the loaded action is fired.

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Loader::load() now checks the configured guard constant after requiring a bundled file. Missing guards trigger _doing_it_wrong() without stopping activation or the loaded action. Registry errors no longer stop the full load pass. Tests cover these behaviors.

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Post-load guard validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Loader guard validation and lifecycle src/Loader.php, docs/actions.md	Loader::load() checks the guard after requiring the bundled file. It reports missing guards and continues activation and loaded notifications. load_all() continues iterating registry results. Documentation describes the updated lifecycle.
Loader unit coverage tests/unit/LoaderTest.php	Tests cover guard validation, activation, loaded notifications, dependency recording, shared-file registrations, duplicate slugs, and continued loading around rejected entries.
Scenario load coverage tests/unit/Scenario/LoadTest.php	The scenario confirms that a bundled file with a different guard is reported, loaded, and activated without an admin notice.

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The loader now reports a missing guard constant after requiring the bundled plugin, but an exception from the error-reporting callback could still escape the activation hook and prevent later activation work. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up to contain that exception path.

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In `@src/Loader.php`:
- Around line 241-255: Wrap the _doing_it_wrong call in the post-require
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[nikolaystrikhar]

On the merge-risk note — "the new missing-guard diagnostic can allow an exception from a reporting listener to terminate activation": not taking it. Same answer as PR #74, which raised it against Registry\Reader.

The diagnostic is inside Loader::load(), and every call to it is already wrapped: load_all() catches Throwable per sub-plugin, so a throwing doing_it_wrong_run listener abandons that one sub-plugin and reports which, exactly as a throw from the enabled callable, the dependency_check callable, the should_load filter or the bundled file itself does. It cannot terminate anything wider than the sub-plugin it fired for.

Inside that one sub-plugin the throw does skip Activator::maybe_run(), and that is survivable by construction: the once-ever record is written after the callback returns, never before, so the activation is retried on the next request rather than frozen as done. That ordering is the reason loaded fires behind the callback rather than in front of it, and the comment above announce() already says so.

Hardening this call specifically would put a try around one of ten _doing_it_wrong() calls in src/, in the loop that has the containment. The rule lives at the hook boundary so a report added later is covered without anyone remembering to wrap it.