Add polyfills for the PHP 7.0 TypeError and Error classes

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -92,11 +92,15 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: "Lint PHP files against parse errors - PHP < 7.0"
         if: ${{ matrix.phpunit == 'auto' && matrix.php < 7.0 }}
-        run: composer lint-lt71
+        run: composer lint-lt70
 
-      - name: "Lint PHP files against parse errors - PHP >= 7.0"
-        if: ${{ matrix.phpunit == 'auto' && matrix.php >= 7.0 }}
-        run: composer lint
+      - name: "Lint PHP files against parse errors - PHP 7.x"
+        if: ${{ matrix.phpunit == 'auto' && startsWith( matrix.php, '7' ) }}
+        run: composer lint7
+
+      - name: "Lint PHP files against parse errors - PHP >= 8.0"
+        if: ${{ matrix.phpunit == 'auto' && matrix.php >= 8.0 }}
+        run: composer lint-gte80
 
       - name: Run the unit tests
         run: composer test

.phpcs.xml.dist

@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@
 		<exclude name="WordPress.Security"/>
 		<exclude name="WordPress.WP"/>
 		<exclude name="Yoast.Yoast.AlternativeFunctions"/>
+
+		<!-- These PHP 7.0+ classes are polyfilled for this repo. -->
+		<exclude name="PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewClasses.errorFound"/>
+		<exclude name="PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewClasses.typeerrorFound"/>
 	</rule>
 
 	<!-- Enforce PSR1 compatible namespaces. -->
@@ -81,6 +85,13 @@
 	#############################################################################
 	-->
 
+	<!-- The polyfills for the PHP native exceptions can not have a namespace
+		 and making those the only files with a file comment would create more,
+		 not less inconsistency. -->
+	<rule ref="Yoast.Commenting.FileComment">
+		<exclude-pattern>/src/Exceptions/*Error\.php$</exclude-pattern>
+	</rule>
+
 	<!-- Deliberately empty Catch statements. -->
 	<rule ref="Generic.CodeAnalysis.EmptyStatement.DetectedCatch">
 		<exclude-pattern>/src/Helpers/ResourceHelper\.php$</exclude-pattern>

composer.json

@@ -46,12 +46,15 @@
         }
     },
     "scripts": {
-        "lint": [
-            "@php ./vendor/php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint/parallel-lint . -e php --exclude vendor --exclude .git"
+        "lint7": [
+            "@php ./vendor/php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint/parallel-lint . -e php --exclude vendor --exclude .git --exclude src/Exceptions/Error.php --exclude src/Exceptions/TypeError.php"
         ],
-        "lint-lt71": [
+        "lint-lt70": [
             "@php ./vendor/php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint/parallel-lint . -e php --exclude vendor --exclude .git --exclude src/TestCases/TestCasePHPUnitGte8.php --exclude src/TestListeners/TestListenerDefaultImplementationPHPUnitGte7.php"
         ],
+        "lint-gte80": [
+            "@php ./vendor/php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint/parallel-lint . -e php --exclude vendor --exclude .git"
+        ],
         "check-cs": [
             "@php ./vendor/squizlabs/php_codesniffer/bin/phpcs --runtime-set testVersion 5.4-"
         ],

phpunitpolyfills-autoload.php

@@ -19,6 +19,27 @@ class Autoload {
 		 * @return bool
 		 */
 		public static function load( $className ) {
+			/*
+			 * Polyfill two PHP 7.0 classes.
+			 * The autoloader will only be called for these if these classes don't already
+			 * exist in PHP natively.
+			 */
+			if ( $className === 'Error' || $className === 'TypeError' ) {
+				$file = \realpath(
+					__DIR__ . \DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR
+					. 'src' . \DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR
+					. 'Exceptions' . \DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR
+					. $className . '.php'
+				);
+
+				if ( \file_exists( $file ) === true ) {
+					require_once $file;
+					return true;
+				}
+
+				return false;
+			}
+
 			// Only load classes belonging to this library.
 			if ( \stripos( $className, 'Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills' ) !== 0 ) {
 				return false;

src/Exceptions/Error.php

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * Polyfill the PHP 7.0+ native Error class.
+ *
+ * @phpcs:disable PSR1.Classes.ClassDeclaration.MissingNamespace
+ */
+class Error extends Exception {}

src/Exceptions/TypeError.php

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * Polyfill the PHP 7.0+ native TypeError class.
+ *
+ * @phpcs:disable PSR1.Classes.ClassDeclaration.MissingNamespace
+ */
+class TypeError extends Error {}