From 69b2e4c0051a2fb393683fd05de956392a516a00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Demian Katz <demian.katz@villanova.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 09:20:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ExtendClass generator: Strip leading slashes from class names

---
 .../src/VuFindConsole/Command/Generate/ExtendClassCommand.php  | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/module/VuFindConsole/src/VuFindConsole/Command/Generate/ExtendClassCommand.php b/module/VuFindConsole/src/VuFindConsole/Command/Generate/ExtendClassCommand.php
index 9bcff9d0f55..a0249555300 100644
--- a/module/VuFindConsole/src/VuFindConsole/Command/Generate/ExtendClassCommand.php
+++ b/module/VuFindConsole/src/VuFindConsole/Command/Generate/ExtendClassCommand.php
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ protected function configure()
      */
     protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
     {
-        $class = $input->getArgument('class_name');
+        // Normalize class name to exclude leading slashes; a FQCN doesn't need it:
+        $class = ltrim($input->getArgument('class_name'), '\\');
         $target = $input->getArgument('target_module');
         $extendFactory = $input->getOption('extendfactory');