Using psalm with non-composer projects

[prabhu]

I am trying to scan an old php project with psalm. I performed the following steps:

1. clone https://github.com/webpwnized/mutillidae
2. do composer --init
3. Install psalm composer require --dev vimeo/psalm
4. Do psalm init - vendor/bin/psalm --init

Init operation leads to the below error.

$ vendor/bin/psalm --init
Calculating best config level based on project files
Scanning files...
Analyzing files...

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░EEEEE░░░EEE░░EEEEE░░E░E░EEEEEEEEEEEEE░░EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 120 / 922 (13%)
EEEEEE░EEEEEEE░EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE░EEEEE░EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE░Uncaught Exception: Could not get class storage for editable
Stack trace in the forked worker:
#0 /home/prabhu/sandbox/mutillidae/vendor/vimeo/psalm/src/Psalm/Internal/Codebase/Methods.php(908): Psalm\Internal\Provider\ClassLikeStorageProvider->get()
#1 /home/prabhu/sandbox/mutillidae/vendor/vimeo/psalm/src/Psalm/Internal/Analyzer/MethodAnalyzer.php(208): Psalm\Internal\Codebase\Methods->getDeclaringMethodId()
#2 /home/prabhu/sandbox/mutillidae/vendor/vimeo/psalm/src/Psalm/Internal/Analyzer/Statements/Expression/CloneAnalyzer.php(66): Psalm\Internal\Analyzer\MethodAnalyzer::isMethodVisible()
#3 /home/prabhu/sandbox/mutillidae/vendor/vimeo/psalm/src/Psalm/Internal/Analyzer/Statements/ExpressionAnalyzer.php(299): Psalm\Internal\Analyzer\Statements\Expression\CloneAnalyzer::analyze()
#4 /home/prabhu/sandbox/mutillidae/vendor/vimeo/psalm/src/Psalm/Internal/Analyzer/Statements/ExpressionAnalyzer.php(45): Psalm\Internal\Analyzer\Statements\ExpressionAnalyzer::handleExpression()
#5 /home/prabhu/sandbox/mutillidae/vendor/vimeo/psalm/src/Psalm/Internal/Analyzer/Statements/ReturnAnalyzer.php(138): Psalm\Internal\Analyzer\Statements\ExpressionAnalyzer::analyze()

Any ideas?

[psalm-github-bot]

Hey @prabhu, can you reproduce the issue on https://psalm.dev ?

[weirdan]

Have you tried running with --debug-by-line switch?

[prabhu]

It ran for an hour but didn't produce psalm.xml. What is that flag supposed to do?

[weirdan]

It's supposed to produce a lot of debug output - basically a line for every line Psalm analyzes. Usually the last log entry points to the line in your source code that makes Psalm crash.

[weirdan]

Reproduced with https://psalm.dev/r/7abe81ec41
The crash is triggered by invalid return type in docblock for HTMLPurifier_DoctypeRegistry::get() method:

    /**
     * Retrieves reference to a doctype of a certain name
     * @note This function resolves aliases
     * @note When possible, use the more fully-featured make()
     * @param $doctype Name of doctype
     * @return Editable doctype object
     */
    public function get($doctype) {
// .......

[psalm-github-bot]

I found these snippets:

https://psalm.dev/r/7abe81ec41

<?php

/**
 * @psalm-suppress UndefinedDocblockClass
 * @psalm-suppress InvalidReturnType
 * @return Editable
 */
function get() {}

clone get();

Psalm encountered an internal error:

/vendor/vimeo/psalm/src/Psalm/Internal/Provider/ClassLikeStorageProvider.php: Could not get class storage for editable

[prabhu]

Thanks. Now I have a hang of how this tool works so can file better defects in the future.