Ability to create stubs without adding them to the autoloader

[mglaman]

Is there a way to register stub files without adding them to the class mapping? The examples for Symfony, PHPUnit, etc add stubs/*.php and register them in the class map.

PHPStan does stubbing with .stub files and via configuration. Does Rector support this? Or is it only possible via autoloading?

We did a stub in drupal-rector:https://github.com/palantirnet/drupal-rector/blob/main/stubs/Drupal/Tests/BrowserTestBase.php. But this is registered before Drupal's PHPUnit bootstrap file, so it takes priority.

[TomasVotruba]

Hi, I think it should be possible via autoload section:
https://github.com/rectorphp/rector/blob/main/docs/static_reflection_and_autoload.md#static-reflection-and-autoload

These files are parsed to static reflection and should be available there.

If not, it still needs to be done probably.

[mglaman]

We need it to work without being autoloader before the actual Drupal source code. The reason the stub was added was for PHPUnit testing.

I mistakenly thought it'd work like PHPStan which falls back on stub autoloading if the class is a miss.

I forgot to mention that, sorry. This stub is added purely for our PHPUnit tests.... Which means I should move the autoload declaration to autoload-dev 🤦‍♂️

Thanks. Thought through the solution while replying.

[TomasVotruba]

See the link and give it a try.