False positive: Call to inArray() with different object instances will always evaluate to true

[simPod]

class A {
	public function __construct(private string $val) {
	}	
}

function foo(A $a) {
    Assert::inArray($a, [new A('a')]);
}

gives:

Call to static method Webmozart\Assert\Assert::inArray() with arguments A and array(A) will always evaluate to true

[ondrejmirtes]

Yeah, this is unfortunate, it means that this code shouldn't exist https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan-src/blob/3c3ea2f21898e8e411b0a7263910722738839288/src/Rules/Comparison/ImpossibleCheckTypeHelper.php#L85-L134 and all of that should be handled directly in https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan-src/blob/master/src/Type/Php/InArrayFunctionTypeSpecifyingExtension.php.

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[staabm]

tried working on it, but I don't get how to formulate the unit test to reproduce the problem (I don't get how the LegacyNodeScopeResolverTest works for this case)

[ondrejmirtes]

You'd need to:

1. Create a new test case that looks like https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan-src/blob/master/tests/PHPStan/Rules/Comparison/ImpossibleCheckTypeStaticMethodCallRuleTest.php and tests the same rule
2. Create a new type-specifying extension that mimics what in_array does. You can copy and reduce this file to a minimal working example: https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan-webmozart-assert/blob/978e524796e5e81851d09d5967b173cda173d422/src/Type/WebMozartAssert/AssertTypeSpecifyingExtension.php#L404-L413
3. Create foo.neon that registers this extension
4. Return the path to foo.neon in the testcase's (from 1)) method public static function getAdditionalConfigFiles().

[p4veI]

Hello, I just came across a similar issue as per the following example:

/**
 * @param mixed $value
 * @param array<mixed> $array 
 */
public function test($value, array $array) : void
{
  Assert::inArray($value, $array);
}

phpstan reports: Call to static method Webmozart\Assert\Assert::inArray() with mixed and array will always evaluate to true.

However this is not true, the webmozart assert function is using the exact same param annotations.

I'm not completely sure if this is related to what @simPod has reported.

[ondrejmirtes]

@p4veI In fact this is exactly the same issue :) In fact this issue was moved from phpstan-webmozart-repo here because it needs to be fixed in PHPStan's core.

[p4veI]

imo fixed in latest release ;)

[staabm]

Please send a regression test, or it didn't happen :-)

[herndlm]

Interesting, I just tried to add a regression test for this. The current state is

• the original snippet is still reported and therefore not fixed
• the snippet from @p4veI is not reported and therefore fixed, I assume

[ondrejmirtes]

Not surprising - there's still a massive codeblock about in_array in ImpossibleCheckTypeHelper: https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan-src/blob/a5f8d2dd0095a80f69fc23364f9cddae67ed7c44/src/Rules/Comparison/ImpossibleCheckTypeHelper.php#L80-L138

It's there to prevent false-positives about in_array calls, but it's not going to work if an extension delegates its method call to in_array extension via TypeSpecifier.

My comment still stands https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan-webmozart-assert/issues/142#issuecomment-1160296906

[herndlm]

ah right, I was just super confused because I could not reproduce it in a phpstan snippet. actually it never reported even when it definitely should. that explains it all :) thx Maybe I try to look at the in_array stuff in phpstan soon. that feels more like my domain :)

[ondrejmirtes]

Enjoy :D https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan/issues/6705

[VincentLanglet]

Just encounter the issue with

Assert::inArray('from__r', $fields);
Assert::inArray('to__r', $fields);
Assert::inArray('fromEnd__r', $fields);
Assert::inArray('toEnd__r', $fields);

Only the second, third and fourth check are reported as always true.