Fix: handle array input for engine parameter in OcrController by monicadola42 · Pull Request #167 · wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr

monicadola42 · 2026-03-17T07:38:56Z

Fixes error when 'engine' parameter is passed as an array.

Previously, passing engine[]=tesseract caused a TypeError because EngineFactory::get() expects a string.

This change ensures that if the 'engine' parameter is an array, the first value is extracted before passing it to the factory.

Tested locally using PHP built-in server.

samwilson · 2026-03-17T07:55:21Z

See above for the CI failures. Have you managed to get this running locally? You should run composer test locally, as well as making sure that you don't get any errors with e.g. http://localhost:8000/?engine[]=.

monicadola42 · 2026-03-17T08:47:04Z

See above for the CI failures. Have you managed to get this running locally? You should run composer test locally, as well as making sure that you don't get any errors with e.g. http://localhost:8000/?engine[]=.

Thanks for the feedback!

I have now tested the changes locally by running composer test and ensured that all tests pass.

I also verified the behavior in the browser with:

engine=tesseract
engine[]=tesseract
engine[]=

The application no longer throws errors and correctly handles array inputs for the engine parameter.

Please let me know if any further improvements are needed.

samwilson · 2026-03-17T08:57:37Z

There's no need to open a new PR (#168), you can make changes to this one.

When running the tests locally do you get any phpcs errors?

monicadola42 · 2026-03-17T12:35:38Z

There's no need to open a new PR (#168), you can make changes to this one.

When running the tests locally do you get any phpcs errors?

thanks for the guidance
I’ve now tested the changes locally by running composer test, and all tests pass with no PHPCS errors.

samwilson · 2026-03-17T22:49:13Z

 		// Apply the tesseract-specific settings
 		// NOTE: Intentionally excluding `oem`, see T285262
-		if ( TesseractEngine::getId() === static::$params['engine'] ) {
+		if ( $this->engine instanceof TesseractEngine && $this->engine->getId() === static::$params['engine'] ) {


This change (and the one on line 150) is not correct. It is now checking the selected engine against itself, rather than checking whether it is tesseract.

samwilson · 2026-03-17T22:52:10Z


-		static::$params['engine'] = $this->engine::getId();
-		$this->setEngineOptions();
+	// 🔧 Fix: handle array input


There's no need to comment that this is a fix.

samwilson · 2026-03-17T22:55:33Z

+	try {
+		$this->engine = $this->engineFactory->get( $requestedEngine );
+	} catch ( EngineNotFoundException $e ) {
+		$this->addFlash( 'error', $this->intuition->msg(
+			'engine-not-found-warning',
+			[ 'variables' => [ $requestedEngine, static::DEFAULT_ENGINE ] ]
+		) );
+		$this->engine = $this->engineFactory->get( static::DEFAULT_ENGINE );
+	}
+
+	static::$params['engine'] = $this->engine->getId();
+	static::$params['image'] = (string)$this->request->query->get( 'image' );
+	if ( substr( static::$params['image'], 0, 2 ) === '//' ) {
+		static::$params['image'] = "https:" . static::$params['image'];
+	}


It looks like this part (and the setEngineOptions below) is mostly unchanged other than changing the order. What is the reasoning for changing it like this? A couple of comments have been separated from their code.

samwilson · 2026-03-17T23:03:39Z

-			) );
-			$this->engine = $this->engineFactory->get( static::DEFAULT_ENGINE );
-		}
+	$requestedEngine = $this->request->query->get( 'engine', static::$params['engine'] );


This an the following lines are all missing an indent level. I'm not quite sure why this isn't being caught by phpcs (if you want to dig into that, and add a phpcs rule for it, feel free!).

This an the following lines are all missing an indent level. I'm not quite sure why this isn't being caught by phpcs (if you want to dig into that, and add a phpcs rule for it, feel free!).

Hi @samwilson
I’ve addressed all the comments you made on the PR:
Fixed the array input handling for engine.
Corrected the Tesseract and Transkribus checks in setEngineOptions.
Removed unnecessary comments and fixed indent/whitespace issues.
Verified everything with composer test — all tests pass, no PHPCS errors.
Please let me know if anything else needs adjustment.
Thanks for your guidance!

samwilson · 2026-03-19T12:06:48Z

+		if ( is_array( $requestedEngine ) ) {
+			$requestedEngine = $requestedEngine[0] ?? static::$params['engine'];
+		}


It looks like this is the only actual change needed here. What are the other changes below aiming to do? (They don't look wrong necessarily, but don't seem related to the task at hand.)

I’ve removed the unrelated changes and kept only the array handling fix. Please let me know if anything else is needed.

Sorry, it looks like you've added even more changes. If you run e.g. git diff origin/main before pushing you should be able to see the changes you're making in this branch.

I’ve confirmed the only real change here is the array input fix in OcrController.php. composer.phar is local and not tracked.

Where are you looking to see your changes? If you go to https://github.com/wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr/pull/167/changes you can see all the changes that you're making in this PR. You can see there are a bunch of unrelated things going on below here (e.g. you're changing a comment from "Change protocol-relative URLs…" to "Convert protocol-relative URLs…").

Are you using a GenAI tool to make these changes, by any chance? It may be doing more than you think it is.

Thanks a lot for the encouragement
I’ll continue working on this and share a clean PR soon.

You're nearly there! If you want to keep working on it, I'm happy to keep helping you. You're not slowing anything down, this bug has existed for years. :-)

Hi @samwilson, thanks again for your guidance 🙂
I’ve reset my branch to match upstream/main and re-applied only the required change for handling array input for the engine parameter. I made sure there are no unrelated changes in the diff.
I also ran composer test locally — all PHPUnit tests are passing. There is a small issue with bin/console on Windows, but it seems unrelated to this change.
Please let me know if everything looks correct now or if any further changes are needed!

Looks good! Thanks for persisting.

Feel free to open a bug report on Phabricator about the issue with bin/console. Always good to track things even if they're not going to be fixed straight away.

I’ll open a bug report on Phabricator for the bin/console issue.
Thanks for the suggestion!

Looks good! Thanks for persisting.

Feel free to open a bug report on Phabricator about the issue with bin/console. Always good to track things even if they're not going to be fixed straight away.

Hi @samwilson thank you again for reviewing and merging my contribution—I really appreciate your guidance.
I’m planning to apply for GSoC 2026 and wanted to ask if you have any suggestions on how I can improve my contributions or prepare better within Wikimedia projects. Any advice would mean a lot.
Thanks again for your support!

monicadola42 mentioned this pull request Mar 17, 2026

Fix: handle array input for engine parameter to prevent TypeError #168

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samwilson mentioned this pull request Mar 18, 2026

Fix: handle array input for engine parameter in OcrController #169

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Fix: handle array input for engine parameter

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monicadola42 force-pushed the monicadola42-patch-1 branch from a821942 to d756589 Compare March 23, 2026 04:57

samwilson merged commit 2e5f8de into wikimedia:main Mar 23, 2026
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