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[RFC] wikibase (composer) libraries register resource loader modules during autoloader startup
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Wikibase (composer) libraries register resource loader modules during autoloader startup. This requires Mediawiki knowledge usually only extensions have. What should we do about that?

This even happens when the extension that requires these components is not loaded.

mediawiki/extensions/Wikidata (master=)$ ack MEDIAWIKI --nogroup
Wikidata.localisation.php:3:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
Wikidata.php:2:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/diff/diff/Diff.php:10:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/data-values/geo/Geo.php:20:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/data-values/validators/Validators.php:20:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/data-values/number/Number.php:20:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/data-values/time/Time.php:20:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/data-values/data-types/DataTypes.php:22:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/data-values/data-types/DataTypes.mw.php:12:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/data-values/data-values/DataValues.php:22:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/data-values/common/Common.php:25:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/data-values/interfaces/Interfaces.php:25:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/wikibase/data-model/WikibaseDataModel.php:17:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/wikibase/internal-serialization/mediawiki.php:3:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/wikibase/data-model-javascript/init.php:5:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/wikibase/data-model-javascript/init.mw.php:3:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/wikibase/javascript-api/WikibaseJavaScriptApi.php:15:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/wikibase/javascript-api/init.mw.php:3:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/wikibase/data-model-serialization/mediawiki.php:3:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/wikibase/serialization-javascript/init.php:5:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
vendor/wikibase/serialization-javascript/init.mw.php:3:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/PropertySuggester/tests/evilMediaWikiBootstrap.php:5:define( 'MEDIAWIKI', true );
extensions/Wikidata.org/WikidataOrg.php:32:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/WikimediaBadges/WikimediaBadges.php:16:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/ValueView/ValueView.mw.php:10:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/ValueView/ValueView.php:20:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/client/WikibaseClient.php:39:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/lib/WikibaseLib.php:33:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/lib/includes/modules/SitesModuleWorker.php:169:             return $site->getType() === Site::TYPE_MEDIAWIKI && in_array( $site->getGroup(), $groups );
extensions/Wikibase/view/init.mw.php:3:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/view/WikibaseView.php:15:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/purtle/init.mw.php:3:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/purtle/Purtle.php:15:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/repo/tests/phpunit/includes/content/EntityHandlerTest.php:161:              $this->assertFalse( $handler->canBeUsedOn( Title::makeTitle( NS_MEDIAWIKI, "Foo" ) ),
extensions/Wikibase/repo/config/Wikibase.searchindex.php:24:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/repo/Wikibase.php:35:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/lib/includes/modules/SitesModuleWorker.php:169:             return $site->getType() === Site::TYPE_MEDIAWIKI && in_array( $site->getGroup(), $groups );
extensions/Wikibase/view/init.mw.php:3:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/view/WikibaseView.php:15:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/purtle/init.mw.php:3:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/purtle/Purtle.php:15:if ( defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/repo/tests/phpunit/includes/content/EntityHandlerTest.php:161:              $this->assertFalse( $handler->canBeUsedOn( Title::makeTitle( NS_MEDIAWIKI, "Foo" ) ),
extensions/Wikibase/repo/config/Wikibase.searchindex.php:24:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {
extensions/Wikibase/repo/Wikibase.php:35:if ( !defined( 'MEDIAWIKI' ) ) {

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Lydia_Pintscher renamed this task from wikibase (composer) libraries register resource loader modules during autoloader startup to [RFC] wikibase (composer) libraries register resource loader modules during autoloader startup.Aug 17 2015, 3:22 PM

In my opinion, extensions should no *nothing* during autoload. Installing a component via composer should not activate an extension; this means that extensions should not register anything with mediawiki via the autoloader interface. This should only happen if and when the extension's entry point is loaded.

daniel triaged this task as Medium priority.EditedSep 10 2015, 3:29 PM

Setting prio to normal: this doesn't break anything for our setup. But it's a potential issue for third parties, and it's generally bad practice, compare the discussion at https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/4109

This should be relatively easy to fix.

Regarding that we won't remove the ResouceLoader dependency soon: That might work in practice ok even as a component. The downside of that is that we need some custom CI glue to run the QUnit tests. That might possibly look like: add a composer depencency on data-values/value-view into an installation of Mediawiki, run composer, run qunit tests as is normally done with Mediawiki.

What exactly is the problem we are trying to solve here?

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None of the wikibase composer libs do this anymore