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@nicolas-grekas nicolas-grekas commented Aug 7, 2025

Q A
Branch? 7.4
Bug fix? no
New feature? yes
Deprecations? yes
Issues #53666
License MIT

This PR replaces #54383

It takes the BC breaking approach by widening some property and method types to accept / return classes from both Dom\* and DOM* sets.

This widening is a hard BC break for child classes the re-declare the corresponding properties/methods.
I expect this situation to be rather uncommon, so I don't think this will be a big-bang BC break.
Fortunately, this change in signature will be easy to spot since the PHP engine will fail early.

In addition, the Crawler class is made generic: once an instance is created, it's going to stick to one set, either Dom\* or DOM* classes.
To further limit the impact, Crawler::__construct() allows building only Crawler<DOMNode> instances and a DomCrawler class is introduced to create Crawler<Dom\Node> ones.

As a reminder, the goal of this work is to be able to remove the dependency on masterminds/html5 in Symfony 8.
It is NOT to force moving to the new Dom\* API.

Still, in order to achieve this goal and because we want HTML5-parsing to be the default, BrowserKit will leverage the new DomCrawler class when running on PHP 8.4+.

The new Dom\* API has some behavioral changes, all legit and documented at https://wiki.php.net/rfc/opt_in_dom_spec_compliance

The Crawler implementation ensures some fundamental behaviors remain, such as node names being returned in lowercase, empty values/texts being returned as the empty string instead of null, or void tags to not have closing tags. I don't think we'd gain much by propagating these changes brought by the Dom\* API to the Crawler one. It'd actually make adopting the new Dom\* implementation harder for little to no benefits.

The BC break is a decision we have to make. I think it's the best possible approach because in practice, the impact will be limited. The alternative taken in #54383 is to create two independent type hierarchies. This will create a situation where suddenly, all the existing crawler-related code will need to be updated. Better not when there's a less costly path - even though it'll break some edge-cases.

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Looks like psalm doesn't undertand my annotations. Any proposals to make them understandable to the tool?
Maybe phpstan would do a better job?

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I'll have a deeper look at this PR soon, but the BC break seems definitely the best option. As you said, I also expect that very few projects will be impacted. Thank you for taking over this topic!

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This PR was merged into the 7.4 branch.

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[HtmlSanitizer] Use the native HTML5 parser when using PHP 8.4+

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Branch?       | 7.4
| Bug fix?      | no
| New feature?  | yes
| Deprecations? | yes
| Issues        | #53666
| License       | MIT

Together with #61356, this PR allows removing any dependency on masterminds/html5 in favor of the native HTML5 capabilities of PHP 8.4 on Symfony 8

In order to do so, this we:
 * Use the native HTML5 parser when using PHP 8.4+
 * Deprecate `MastermindsParser`; use `NativeParser` instead
 * [BC BREAK] `ParserInterface::parse()` can now return `\Dom\Node|\DOMNode|null` instead of just `\DOMNode|null`
 * Add argument `$context` to `ParserInterface::parse()`

Note that `DomVisitor` is internal so no BC breaks there.
And `StringSanitizer::htmlLower()` can leverage `strtolower()` since PHP 8.2 thanks to https://wiki.php.net/rfc/strtolower-ascii

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d0f98ad [HtmlSanitizer] Use the native HTML5 parser when using PHP 8.4+
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Looks good! About PHPStan, I'm not sure... To me, the syntax looks correct but I never saw the T is ... used elsewhere than with @return. Usage with @return is the only one documented, so I guess @var may be unsupported unfortunately.

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At least phpstan understands the type alias and the type conditions.
PR is good to go. Votes pending ;)

@nicolas-grekas nicolas-grekas force-pushed the dom-crawler-84 branch 5 times, most recently from c7d6231 to 9f6bc5a Compare August 20, 2025 12:04
@@ -614,9 +634,17 @@ public function html(?string $default = null): string
$html .= $owner->saveHTML($child);
}

if ($this instanceof DomCrawler) {
// remove all void elements as defined by HTML5
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Be careful. A DomCrawler might hold XML content, not just HTML content. You need to also check whether $this->document is a Dom\HtmlDocument, or check $this->isHtml

* properties `FormField::$document`, `$xpath`, `$node` and method `getLabel()`
* methods `Form::getFormNode()` and `addField()`
* property `AbstractUriElement::$node`, and methods `getNode()` and `setNode()`
* methods `Crawler::add()`, `addDocument()`, `addNodeList()`, `addNode()`, `getNode()` and `sibling()`
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type widening for getNode is a BC impacting caller code rather than child classes due to widening a return type instead of a parameter type (same for other getters in other classes). This should be highlighted IMO.

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And this is not just theoretical. https://github.com/minkphp/MinkBrowserKitDriver will be totally broken by this BC break affecting consumers of the library (and immediately because of the BC break in BrowserKit switching to the BC-breaking implementation)

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* Leverage the native HTML5 parser when using PHP 8.4+
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this is a BC break for code interacting with DomCrawler methods returning a raw node as the type has changed. this should be documented as such.

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nicolas-grekas commented Aug 20, 2025

Thanks for the review @stof
I fixed your comments and then tried another BC-safe approach which appears to work, see #61475
This very PR might still be useful if we want to expose the new Dom\* API one day.
Closing for now.

@nicolas-grekas nicolas-grekas deleted the dom-crawler-84 branch August 20, 2025 15:47
nicolas-grekas added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2025
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This PR was merged into the 7.4 branch.

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[DomCrawler] Use the native HTML5 parser on PHP 8.4

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Branch?       | 7.4
| Bug fix?      | no
| New feature?  | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Issues        | -
| License       | MIT

This PR keeps the `DOM*`-based API but uses the native HTML5 parser on PHP 8.4 instead of masterminds/html5.
This works by parsing HTML strings using `Dom\HTMLDocument` then serializing to XML, and loading again using `DOMDocument::loadXML()`.

This basically replaces #61356 since it removes any BC breaks.

The drawback compared to a more native approach is the double-parsing that happens.
This could be worked on later by providing a way to leverage the new `Dom\*` API directly.
To be proved worth it before.

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bd7fb51 [DomCrawler] Use the native HTM5 parser on PHP 8.4
@nicolas-grekas nicolas-grekas restored the dom-crawler-84 branch August 21, 2025 07:56
@nicolas-grekas nicolas-grekas deleted the dom-crawler-84 branch August 21, 2025 07:57
nicolas-grekas added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2025
This PR was merged into the 7.4 branch.

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[DomCrawler] Improve phpdoc annotations

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Branch?       | 7.4
| Bug fix?      | no
| New feature?  | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Issues        | -
| License       | MIT

Subset of #61356

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c06142a [DomCrawler] Improve phpdoc annotations
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