Establish standards for namespace usage [no patch] (#1323082) · Issues · project / documentation

Establish standards for namespace usage [no patch]

>>> [!note] Migrated issue   Reported by: [Crell](https://www.drupal.org/user/26398) >>> <h3 id="summary-problem-motivation">Problem/Motivation</h3> There's a couple of pieces here. First, we've adopted PSR-0 for *core* classes, which has its own specification for how code is laid out on disk. That fact needs to be added to the coding standards. Second, we need to document how we reference namespaced classes. There's a number of different ways that it could be done, technically speaking. The following are all PHP-syntax-legal: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php use Drupal\Subsystem\Foo; $f = new Foo(); ?></pre></div> <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php use \Drupal\Subsystem\Foo; $f = new Foo(); ?></pre></div> <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php $f = new Drupal\Subsystem\Foo(); ?></pre></div> <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php $f = new \Drupal\Subsystem\Foo(); ?></pre></div> <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php $f = new Drupal\Subsystem\Foo(); ?></pre></div> <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php $f = new Drupal\Subsystem\Foo(); ?></pre></div> <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php namespace Drupal\Subsystem; $d = new \DateTime(); ?></pre></div> <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php namespace Drupal\Subsystem; use \DateTime; $d = new DateTime(); ?></pre></div> Clearly we want to try and standardize... <h3 id="summary-proposed-resolution">Proposed resolution</h3> (description of the proposed solution, the rationale behind it, and workarounds for people who cannot use the patch) Based on the PSR-0 standard, the conventions that Symfony appears to be using, and a desire to not completely invalidate all existing code, I would propose the following: A file that declares a namespace: - Must "use" all classes that it will reference that are in a namespace. - Must "use" all classes that it will reference that are not in a namespace (including PHP-native classes). - Must not change the name of a class when importing unless not doing so would cause confusion or name collision. A file that does not declare a namespace (which right now is everything in core except the Symfony directory): - Must "use" all classes that it will reference that are in a namespace. - Must not "use" all classes that it will reference that are not in a namespace (including PHP-native classes). - Must not change the name of a class when importing unless not doing so would cause confusion or name collision. All files should: - Always reference a class literal name by its short name (whether because it's in the same namespace or has been imported with "use"). - Always reference a dynamic class name in a string with a fully qualified name, which does NOT begin with a leading \. - When importing a class with "use", must include a fully qualified name and do NOT include the leading \. (The lack of a leading \ is recommended by the PHP documentation.) That is, all code should look like this: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php // Foo.php namespace Drupal*Subsystem; use DateTime; use Drupal\Othersystem\Cat; // Bar is a class in the Drupal\Subsystem namespace in another file. class Foo {   public function __construct(Bar $b, Cat $c) {     $d = new DateTime();   } } ?></pre></div> <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php // example.module use Drupal\Subsystem\Foo; function do_stuff(Foo $f) {   $d = new DateTime(); } ?></pre></div> Note that this puts all of the \ silliness up at the top of the file, and also creates a nice index of everything a given file depends on. When importing multiple classes, if they would cause a name collision then they should both be aliased in the use statement for clarity. The alias should be formed by adding the preceeding namespace as a prefix. That is: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php use Foo\Bar\Baz as BarBaz; use Stuff\Thing\Baz as ThingBaz; function test() {   $a = new BarBaz(); // This will be Foo\Bar\Baz   $b = new ThingBaz(); // This will be Stuff\Thing\Baz } ?></pre></div> That helps keep clear which one is which, and where it comes from. Aliasing should only be done to avoid collisions of that sort. <h3 id="summary-remaining-tasks">Remaining tasks</h3> Convert the above into proper handbook-ese once we agree on it. <h3 id="summary-api-changes">API changes</h3> I don't know that this qualifies as an API change per se.

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