Error parsing MongoDB 2.0.0 PHP Library

[jwoehr]

Apache NetBeans version

Apache NetBeans 26 latest release candidate

What happened

Parsing MongoDB 2.0.0 PHP Library incorrectly flags error:

Language / Project Type / NetBeans Component

No response

How to reproduce

• Install MongoDB PHP driver
• Composer require MongoDB PHP Library
• Open project and find errors

Did this work correctly in an earlier version?

No / Don't know

Operating System

NAME="Pop!_OS" VERSION="22.04 LTS" ID=pop ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"

JDK

openjdk 21.0.6 2025-01-21

Apache NetBeans packaging

Own source build

Anything else

No response

Are you willing to submit a pull request?

No

[matthiasblaesing]

Is there a real PHP documentation somewhere? The Traits documentation is littered with examples and prosa, but is lacking concrete grammar, so this might or might not be valid syntax. A hint to resolve this would be great.

[jwoehr]

@matthiasblaesing searching I found this: https://phplang.org/spec/19-grammar.html ,,, e.g.,

[jwoehr]

https://github.com/php/php-langspec

[matthiasblaesing]

@jwoehr thanks

[neilcsmith-net]

The token colour of match stands out to me. Am I right that Query.php has the same construct? I have a feeling this might be getting confused with the support added for match expressions in #2303 ?

[jwoehr]

@matthiasblaesing I've figured out what is happening with

use Stage\FactoryTrait {
        match as private generatedMatch;
    }

match here is being interpreted by NetBeans PHP support as the (relatively new) PHP keyword match.
However, in this context, match means the function from FactoryTrait:

    public static function match(QueryInterface|array $query): MatchStage
    {
        return new MatchStage($query);
    }

The code is hiding the match function so it can overload the name and use it in the Stage class with a different signature.

MongoDB development team must have named match after the MongoDB aggregation operator it implements named $match (before match became a keyword in PHP). NetBeans PHP support is intepreting the lexeme match as the PHP keyword rather than as an identifier.

[neilcsmith-net]

Thanks @jwoehr As I said, this looks like it's coming from #2303

cc/ @junichi11 @tmysik to decide whether there's a relevant fix or this should be closed.

[tmysik]

Your evaluation seems to be correct. @junichi11, please, would you be able to look into it? Thank you.

[jwoehr]

Thanks to the team for keeping PHP support in NetBeans relevant. It's my go-to for PHP.