Support language switcher links that are render arrays, instead of possible TypeError: htmlspecialchars() WSOD? (#3378536) · Issues · project / toolbar_language_switcher

Support language switcher links that are render arrays, instead of possible TypeError: htmlspecialchars() WSOD?

>>> [!note] Migrated issue   Reported by: [dqd](https://www.drupal.org/user/1001934) Related to !6 >>> Coming from a core issue <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3352384" title="Status: Needs work">#3352384: Add Exception for TypeError Argument must be String in Drupal Component Utility Html escape{}</a> which is not clear enough yet regarding core handling of such issues and by helping a user with a TypeError issue and to find its reasons, I made this finding. Many reports come up on D.O. lately because of the change to strict in PHP handling of Type. From the users report to me: <blockquote>"After updating to latest module version and a successful user login, a WSOD appears with the following TypeError message on screen. <code>TypeError: htmlspecialchars(): Argument #1 ($string) must be of type string, array given in htmlspecialchars() (line 432 of core\lib\Drupal\Component\Utility\Html.php)</code> Making the admin path unmaintainable."</blockquote> This is not the only issue like this, but I was sure each is caused by another reason. So I started to make some points and brought up some thoughts on this in Slack and had a very helpful chat with @smustgrave who suggested to print the array content in the moment the error gets initiated. So I did the following for the users case: Changing the respective code in the spot of the error message from <pre>public static function escape($text): string {   if (is_null($text)) {     @trigger_error('Passing NULL to ' . __METHOD__ . ' is deprecated in drupal:9.5.0 and will trigger a PHP error from drupal:11.0.0. Pass a string instead. See https://www.drupal.org/node/3318826', E_USER_DEPRECATED);   return '';   }   return htmlspecialchars($text, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE, 'UTF-8'); }</pre>to <pre>public static function escape($text): string {   if (is_array($text)) {     var_dump($text);   }   if (is_null($text)) {     @trigger_error('Passing NULL to ' . __METHOD__ . ' is deprecated in drupal:9.5.0 and will trigger a PHP error from drupal:11.0.0. Pass a string instead. See https://www.drupal.org/node/3318826', E_USER_DEPRECATED);   return '';   }   return htmlspecialchars($text, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE, 'UTF-8'); }</pre>to print a var_dump from an array which actually should be string here. Which leads to the following output in place of the admin menu section. <pre>    web/core/lib/Drupal/Component/Utility/Html.php:431:     array (size=2)       'flag' =>         array (size=3)           '#theme' => string 'flags' (length=5)           '#code' => string 'de' (length=2)           '#source' => string 'language' (length=8)       'title' =>         array (size=1)           '#markup' => string 'DE' (length=2)     web/core/lib/Drupal/Component/Utility/Html.php:431:     array (size=2)       'flag' =>         array (size=3)           '#theme' => string 'flags' (length=5)           '#code' => string 'de' (length=2)           '#source' => string 'language' (length=8)       'title' =>         array (size=1)           '#markup' => string 'DE' (length=2)</pre> > Related issue: [Issue #3352384](https://www.drupal.org/node/3352384)

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