[#3070] Restored Drupal Rector sets and added a guard against them silently unloading.

[AlexSkrypnyk]

Refs #3070

This pull request does not close #3070. That issue tracks lifting the constraint once palantirnet/drupal-rector releases DrupalSetList::COMPOSER_BASED and Rector stops mis-scoping it, and it carries the exit criteria for doing so, so it stays open after this merges.

Summary

Rector 2.6.5 (released 2026-08-30) silently disables the Drupal deprecation rules configured in rector.php, and it is down to two independent bugs upstream. withSetProviders() was disabled by rectorphp/rector#8392 and is now a no-op that emits a PHP deprecation notice, so DrupalSetProvider is never consulted and no Drupal sets register, while Rector still exits 0 and prints [OK] Rector is done!. That means CI stays green even though zero Drupal rules ran. The documented replacement, calling withComposerBased(drupal: TRUE) on its own, needs DrupalRector\Set\DrupalSetList::COMPOSER_BASED, a constant that does not exist in the released palantirnet/drupal-rector 1.1.2 or on its main branch and is added only by the open pull request palantirnet/drupal-rector#419. Separately, Rector 2.6.5 mis-scopes that class in src/Configuration/RectorConfigBuilder.php: line 7 imports it as RectorPrefix202608\DrupalRector\Set\DrupalSetList (wrongly php-scoper-prefixed) while the equivalent Laravel import on line 35 is left unprefixed, so even once #419 lands the call fatals with Class "RectorPrefix202608\DrupalRector\Set\DrupalSetList" not found.

This was verified by building a Drupal 11.4 site from the template and running a probe containing a Drupal 11.2 deprecation (drupal_requirements_severity()) through every combination of Rector and drupal-rector version:

rector	drupal-rector	bare withComposerBased()	provider + withComposerBased()
2.6.4	1.1.2 released	no DrupalSetList	rewrites the deprecation
2.6.4	#419 branch	rewrites the deprecation	rewrites the deprecation
2.6.5	1.1.2 released	silently no rules	silently no rules
2.6.5	#419 branch	fatal	fatal

Holding rector/rector below 2.6.5 is the only cell in that table that both exists today and actually rewrites Drupal deprecations.

Changes

• Constrained rector/rector in composer.json from ^2.6.4 to >=2.6.4 <2.6.5, holding it at the last release where the documented Drupal set configuration works; issue Restore Drupal Rector sets once upstream supports 'withComposerBased()' #3070 carries the exit criteria for lifting the hold.
• Changed withPhpSets(php84: TRUE) to bare withPhpSets() in rector.php, matching Rector's own guidance to call it with no argument so the target PHP version comes from composer.json instead of being duplicated here.
• Removed the hand-rolled withAutoloadPaths() closure (which built a DrupalFinderComposerRuntime inline) and the withFileExtensions() list from rector.php, plus the now-unused use DrupalFinder\DrupalFinderComposerRuntime; import, because the Drupal sets register both. drupal-rector's config/drupal-bootstrap.php calls autoloadPaths() with the same four directories the removed closure listed, and fileExtensions() with the same seven extensions.
• Regenerated the installer test fixtures under .vortex/installer/tests/Fixtures/ to match: 152/152 scenarios pass, and a second run reports Updated: 0.
• Added subtestAhoyLintBeRector() to .vortex/tests, a regression guard that fails when the Drupal rule sets stop loading. See the section below.

The skip list, withPreparedSets(), withRules(), withAttributesSets(behat: TRUE) (including its #;< TOOL_BEHAT installer fences), and withImportNames() are all unchanged.

Verifying the removed autoload paths

Both removals were tested rather than inferred, because a silently-missing autoloader would reintroduce exactly the failure mode this change fixes.

File extensions are covered by a .module file carrying a Drupal deprecation: Rector's default extension list is php alone, so the file being discovered and rewritten at all proves the Drupal extensions are registered.

Autoloading needs a sharper probe. A class from drupal/core proves nothing, since Composer's own PSR-4 map already covers Drupal\Core\ and Drupal\Component\. Contrib is the real test: vendor/composer/autoload_psr4.php has no Drupal\pathauto entry, so that namespace resolves only through Rector's autoload paths. The probe extends Drupal\pathauto\AliasCleaner and overrides a method, and the rule is AddOverrideAttributeToOverriddenMethodsRector, which can fire only when the parent class actually resolves:

config	Drupal sets	explicit withAutoloadPaths()	#[\Override] added
A	yes	no	yes
B	yes	yes	yes, byte-identical diff to A
C	no	no	no

C is the control: strip the Drupal sets and the attribute is no longer added, because AliasCleaner becomes unresolvable. A and B being identical is what shows the explicit block was redundant rather than merely unnecessary for this particular probe.

Guarding against the next silent failure

The existing suite was green throughout the outage this pull request fixes, so a regression guard is part of the change. ahoy lint-be asserted only that Rector exits 0, which it does even when its rule sets load nothing, and the seeded defect in subtestAhoyLintBe() is a PHPCS violation that fails the chain before Rector runs at all.

subtestAhoyLintBeRector() seeds a class containing a deprecated Drupal call and asserts two things about the run:

$this->cmdFail('ahoy cli vendor/bin/rector --dry-run --clear-cache', ['* FunctionToStaticRector'], ...);

cmdFail() requires a non-zero exit, and the output assertion requires Rector to name the rule that caught it. The second assertion is not redundant: a future Rector release adding any rule that fires on the canary file would keep the exit code non-zero and hollow the guard out silently, which is the same class of failure being fixed here.

Rector is invoked directly rather than through ahoy lint-be, because PHPCS runs first in that chain and a failure there would prove nothing about Rector.

The guard was verified against both states, and the second row is the state Rector 2.6.5 produces:

configuration	exit code	rule named in output	test result
current	2	yes	passes
Drupal sets removed	0	no	fails

It also runs in CI on the branch, against a real containerised site rather than only locally:

---[ SUBTEST START | subtestAhoyLintBeRector ]---
  --> Assert that the Drupal Rector rule sets are loaded
    > Syncing file from host to container: web/modules/custom/sw_base/src/RectorCanary.php
    > `rector` fails and names the rule that rewrote a deprecated Drupal call
---[ SUBTEST DONE | subtestAhoyLintBeRector | 10s ]---

One maintenance obligation comes with it: the canary depends on drupal_requirements_severity() being a live Drupal 11.x deprecation. When the template moves to Drupal 12 the composer-based provider stops matching the Drupal 11 sets, because ^11.0 is not satisfied by a 12.x core, and this test fails. That failure is loud rather than silent, and a major-version bump is the right moment to re-point the canary at a current deprecation.

Before / After

BEFORE
┌───────────────────────────┐
│ composer.json             │
│ "rector/rector": "^2.6.4" │
└───────────────────────────┘
  │
  │  resolves to 2.6.5
  ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ rector.php                               │
│ declares Drupal autoload paths and file  │
│ extensions itself, then calls            │
│ withSetProviders() + withComposerBased() │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘
  │
  │  withSetProviders() is now a
  │  silent no-op (rector#8392)
  ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Drupal deprecation rules loaded: 0              │
│ `rector` exits 0, prints "[OK] Rector is done!" │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

AFTER
┌───────────────────────────────────┐
│ composer.json                     │
│ "rector/rector": ">=2.6.4 <2.6.5" │
└───────────────────────────────────┘
  │
  │  resolves to 2.6.4
  ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ rector.php                               │
│ declares neither; only calls             │
│ withSetProviders() + withComposerBased() │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘
  │
  │  sets register and supply both
  │  autoload paths and file extensions
  ▼
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Drupal deprecation rules loaded                │
│ contrib class resolves, `.module` files parsed │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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Walkthrough

The pull request pins rector/rector to 2.6.4, updates rector.php to use the PHP version from composer.json, and adds Ahoy validation for Drupal Rector rules.

Changes

Rector compatibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update Rector configuration composer.json, rector.php	The dependency is restricted to versions from 2.6.4 up to, but excluding, 2.6.5. The PHP target now uses the project version from composer.json. Manual Drupal autoload paths and file-extension declarations are removed. Drupal set providers and Composer-based settings remain enabled.
Validate Drupal Rector rules .vortex/tests/phpunit/Functional/AhoyWorkflowTest.php, .vortex/tests/phpunit/Traits/Subtests/SubtestAhoyTrait.php	The stateless Ahoy workflow runs a new Rector lint subtest. The subtest checks that a deprecated Drupal call triggers FunctionToStaticRector and removes its temporary canary file.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 57ef2

A failure during the verification workflow can leave a temporary canary file behind because cleanup is not guaranteed on every exit path. This is a bounded maintenance issue, so the PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up.

Poem

A rabbit pins the Rector trail

Drupal rules no longer fail
Composer sets the PHP guide
A canary hops, then steps aside
Ahoy checks the rules applied

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #3070 by holding rector/rector below 2.6.5, retaining Drupal set-provider loading, restoring Drupal deprecation-rule execution, and adding a regression test. The upstream-dep…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes are related to issue #3070. The dependency constraint, Rector configuration, and regression test directly support Drupal set loading and its verification.
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately identifies the main changes: restoring Drupal Rector set loading and adding a guard test to detect silent unloading.

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The changes satisfy issue #3070 by holding rector/rector below 2.6.5, retaining Drupal set-provider loading, restoring Drupal deprecation-rule execution, and adding a regression test. The upstream-dependent version-lifting criteria are not applicable until both upstream fixes are released.

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