symfony recipes : composer recipes vs composer help "recipes"

[Jduret]

I'm trying to use your composer Docker image. My project use Symfony and the Symfony/Flex Composer extension.
I use a shortcut to run composer command :

#/usr/local/bin/composer
sudo docker run --rm --interactive --tty \
--volume $PWD:/app \
--volume ${COMPOSER_HOME:-$HOME/.composer}:/tmp \
composer "$@"

My issue occured when I try to call composer recipes under my project.

/docker-entrypoint.sh: exec: line 24: recipes: not found

So I open a bash in the container.

docker run -it --volume $PWD:/app \
--entrypoint /bin/bash composer

And then I ran the command : composer recipes

 bash-5.1# composer recipes

 Available recipes.

 * doctrine/annotations
  * doctrine/doctrine-bundle (update available)
 * doctrine/doctrine-migrations-bundle (update available)
 * symfony/apache-pack (update available)
 * symfony/console (update available)
 * symfony/flex
 * symfony/framework-bundle (update available)
 * symfony/maker-bundle
 * symfony/monolog-bundle (update available)
 * symfony/phpunit-bridge (update available)
 * symfony/routing (update available)
 * symfony/twig-bundle (update available)
 * symfony/validator (update available)
 * symfony/web-profiler-bundle

Run:
 * composer recipes vendor/package to see details about a recipe.
 * composer recipes:install vendor/package --force -v to update that recipe.

So the error is not from composer but from the entrypoint.
In the entrypoint I found this :

isCommand() {
  # Retain backwards compatibility with common CI providers,
  # see: https://github.com/composer/docker/issues/107
  if [ "$1" = "sh" ]; then
    return 1
  fi

  composer help "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1
}

So I ran this command : composer help "recipes"

bash-5.1# composer help "recipes"

  [Symfony\Component\Console\Exception\CommandNotFoundException]
  Command "recipes" is not defined.

help [--xml] [--format FORMAT] [--raw] [--] [<command_name>]

Can you explain me why composer recipes work and composer help "recipes" don't ?

I've already tried the commande composer help "recipes" using a local composer and it works

[alcohol]

I think it is because those commands are added at runtime. Perhaps the help command cannot resolve them due to this. Running composer help recipes does not work for me even from inside the container (where it calls composer directly). Which is peculiar because composer list does list it as an available command. @Seldaek any idea why?

[Seldaek]

Oh yeah, we did optimize these away by default, forgot to also add to help. This has nothing to do with docker.

[Seldaek]

Related/similar to #10075

[alcohol]

No idea if relevant or related as well, but running composer list symfony lists several commands from the symfony namespace, but running composer list recipes fails:

Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: max(): Argument #1 ($value) must contain at least one element in phar:///usr/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Descriptor/TextDescriptor.php:277
Stack trace:
#0 phar:///usr/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Descriptor/TextDescriptor.php(277): max(Array)
#1 phar:///usr/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Descriptor/TextDescriptor.php(194): Symfony\Component\Console\Descriptor\TextDescriptor->getColumnWidth(Array)
#2 phar:///usr/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Descriptor/Descriptor.php(55): Symfony\Component\Console\Descriptor\TextDescriptor->describeApplication(Object(Composer\Console\Application), Array)
#3 phar:///usr/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Helper/DescriptorHelper.php(69): Symfony\Component\Console\Descriptor\Descriptor->describe(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput), Object(Composer\Console\Application), Array)
#4 phar:///usr/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Command/ListCommand.php(81): Symfony\Component\Console\Helper\DescriptorHelper->describe(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput), Object(Composer\Console\Application), Array)
#5 phar:///usr/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Command/Command.php(245): Symfony\Component\Console\Command\ListCommand->execute(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#6 phar:///usr/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(835): Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#7 phar:///usr/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(185): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Command\ListCommand), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#8 phar:///usr/bin/composer/src/Composer/Console/Application.php(327): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#9 phar:///usr/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(117): Composer\Console\Application->doRun(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#10 phar:///usr/bin/composer/src/Composer/Console/Application.php(128): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#11 phar:///usr/bin/composer/bin/composer(67): Composer\Console\Application->run()
#12 /usr/bin/composer(29): require('phar:///usr/bin...')
#13 {main}
  thrown in phar:///usr/bin/composer/vendor/symfony/console/Descriptor/TextDescriptor.php on line 277

Edit: looks like it fails in symfony vendor code though; so perhaps not an issue we can address.