Question about implementation requirements

[gebeer]

Thank you for the great extension.

I can't get it to work when using Latte outside the Nette Framework.

Is the definition of a FooTemplateParameters class following the example at https://latte.nette.org/en/type-system required for type hinting to work?

I guess yes. Just wanted to make sure.

[smuuf]

Hi, I've not (yet) tested it outside Nette, but AFAIK the extension shouldn't really be dependent on it in any way.

Type hinting via specifying {templateType ...} is now pretty well supported, but also shouldn't be a requirement.

As long as you specify some (existing) types for some variables in a .latte file via tag {var MyNamespace\MyClass $object = ...} or via tag {varType MyNamespace\MyClass $object}, the extension should be able pick that up.

If it doesn't work for you, is there maybe anything useful visible in the Help > Toggle Developer Tools JS console in vscode? 🤔

[smuuf]

Here viewing Latte file in https://github.com/ApiGen/ApiGen codebase, as an example of working vscode-latte-lang extension outside of Nette framework app:

[BernhardBaumrock]

Thx @smuuf it's strange. It does not work for me:

Any ideas what we could be missing?

[smuuf]

... 🤔

As I asked the original issue author - is there maybe some error visible in vscode's JS console (in Developer Tools)? Also what dev environment do you have? Pure Windows? Windows/WSL? Linux?

[gebeer]

... 🤔

As I asked the original issue author - is there maybe some error visible in vscode's JS console (in Developer Tools)? Also what dev environment do you have? Pure Windows? Windows/WSL? Linux?

Thank you for looking into this.
The described behaviour happens on both, Windows 11 and Linux. In VSCode, VSCodium and Cursor Editors (both forks of VSCode) No relevant errors/warnings in devtools. Here some screens from Cursor Editor running on Linux.

[BernhardBaumrock]

Thx @smuuf what console are you talking about? One of these? Sorry I'm using VSCode every day but only as a user, I have never touched anything beyond settings ;)

The screenshot is from cursor, here's the same with vscode:

I'm on Mac as you can see :)

Thx for your help @smuuf !

[smuuf]

@gebeer Are you sure you have the correct fully qualified class name in the template? In your screenshot I see RockPageBuilder\Model3D vs RockPageBuilderBlock\Model3D.

[BernhardBaumrock]

@smuuf I think you are right here, but I tried the same with the repo you linked to. And these kind of typos only happen because the IDE does not suggest the correct type as it would in PHP:

Not sure if your extension should also add autocomplete for vartypes?

[gebeer]

@gebeer Are you sure you have the correct fully qualified class name in the template? In your screenshot I see RockPageBuilder\Model3D vs RockPageBuilderBlock\Model3D.

Doesn't make a difference:

[daun]

Just installed the extension, amazing work, thanks a lot for this! Just wanted to add a note that type hints seem to be working correctly in the latest version, but best to check in with @gebeer if he's still seeing the issue.

[BernhardBaumrock]

@daun it's still not working for me and has never been :( Any ideas?

[daun]

@BernhardBaumrock Just guessing: Might be an issue with intelephense, if that's used to gather type information? I remember having issues with it not properly starting. But if you're seeing the typehints in regular PHP files, that might not be it. Also, could be a compatibility issue with another extension — disabling all extensions except this one might give some clues.

[smuuf]

I'm not sure if this may be culprit of some of these problems (judging by the lack of related errors in you devtools console I guess it probably is not), but I recently found out that having Todo Tree extension -Gruntfuggly.todo-tree enabled breaks my vscode-latte-lang extension (and it's not the only extension it breaks - Gruntfuggly/todo-tree#853).

[BernhardBaumrock]

Hey @smuuf I thought heureka I have that extension installed (and don't really use it), but still it doesn't really work :(

In a latte file it shows a snippet rather than proper code intellisense:

In a PHP file it shows the proper methods that are available:

What is strange though is that when I hover over the $wire variable in the latte file it seems to know about the type?!

Am I missing something?

[smuuf]

My extension's tooltips look like the third one - so it looks like it least finally parsed the {varType ...} as it should have 🤔

I'm not really sure what the source of the tooltip in your first screenshot is, but I don't think it comes from my extension.
If latte-lang really found the ProcessWire class in your PHP source files then it would be shown as a link:

... vs if it doesn't find it:

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It may be that my PHP source code scanning and parsing mechanism either:

1. didn't find the PHP file with that class at all or failed while scanning the codebase for PHP files, or
2. scanned the PHP file but failed to parse it (e.g. PHP 8.4 property hooks syntax is not supported yet, so it might break parsing, or it might be something else unexpected), or
3. worked, but you used wrong namespace in your {varType ...} Latte tag. From the looks of it ProcessWire looks like that's some namespace and not a fully qualified class name...? 🤔