cannot pass PHP options

[yurii-stickee-2023]

Currently, there is no way to pass PHP options to underlying commands.

As an example, t is not possible to get correct test coverage with PCOV for custom directories (any other directory except default app/*).

Setup

My setup is current default Laravel application via installer

Laravel 12.4.1
nunomaduro/collision 8.7.0
PHP 8.3.x

How to reproduce

Run PHPUnit with extra option -dpcov.directory=. to include code from custom directory

php -dpcov.directory=. vendor/bin/phpunit --coverage-html=.phpunit.cache/coverage

it will produce coverage 42.86%, which is expected behavior.

Now, run tests via this package as

php -dpcov.directory=. artisan test --coverage --coverage-html=.phpunit.cache/coverage

OR

php -d pcov.directory=. artisan test --coverage --coverage-html=.phpunit.cache/coverage

it will produce coverage 28.57%, which is wrong.
Coverage for custom directory was excluded.

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As I understand this is caused by the fact that options are not passed to underlying command.

• TestCommand > Passing on ini settings to phpunit/paratest #284 - pretty much the problem I have
• Allow passing ini settings to PHP #295 MR it was just closed, but I assume it was fixing this issue at that particular moment, can it be revived and merged?

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I consider this behavior of this wrapper command \NunoMaduro\Collision\Adapters\Laravel\Commands\TestCommand as a bug, because missing such ability as passing command options is a major flaw.

Best regards

[yurii-stickee-2023]

It looks like it passes natively --passthru-php="-dpcov.enabled=1 -dpcov.directory=\"~(a|b|c)~\"" for Paratest because it is not in the excluded list in the method \NunoMaduro\Collision\Adapters\Laravel\Commands\TestCommand::paratestArguments()

So, right now, technically, we can pass PHP options only with Paratest and only to its spawned test processes.
This may be acceptable if user has enabled PCOV, as test coverage is provided by new processes.

It looks like the best way to achieve this as a general solution is to copy functionality from \ParaTest\Options::parsePassthru() and apply its result to PHP_BINARY like array_merge(PHP_BINARY, $someOptions)