Cache item throw an error on reading with DateTimeImmutable date objects

[jacekkarczmarczyk]

Configuration

• PhpFastCache version: 9.1
• PhpFastCache API version: 4.1.0
• PHP version: 8.1
• Operating system: win10

Describe the bug

When updating cache item like this:

        $item = $cacheItemPool->getItem('key');
        $item->set('some data');
        $item->setExpirationDate(new DateTimeImmutable('+1 year'));
        $cacheItemPool->save($item);

(which is valid as setExpirationDate allows DateTimeInterface)

phpfastcache fails on reading data:

TypeError: DateTime::createFromFormat(): Argument #2 ($datetime) must be of type string, DateTimeImmutable given

in \Phpfastcache\Core\Pool\DriverBaseTrait::driverUnwrapEdate

Expected behavior
No error when expiration date set to DateTimeImmutable

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[Geolim4]

Hello,

Nice catch, but I'm facing one potential problem with DateTimeImmutable object.

I'm not sure how atomic operations such as $item::expiresAfter() should react if Immutable object are set 🤔

I think that I should convert immutable object to mutable object before passing them to the core.

[Geolim4]

After some code review, I've decided that Immutable DateTime will be automatically converted to Mutable DateTime for one simple reason: Very few backend support "plain DateTime" object storage. In fact for most of them I have to store the date as an ATOM formatted string .

So I cannot even persist the mutability status of the Datetime object along with other stored data.

[jacekkarczmarczyk]

Every solution is fine as long as it doesn't throw error when reading data saved with DateTimeImmutable expiration date :)

[Geolim4]

Indeed, however if I fix that error I will introduce an unintended side-effect that I'll need to fix too, so I need to fix both of them.

[Geolim4]

Can you test the v9 branch please ?

If it's ok for you I'll push a fix for v8.1 tomorrow too.

Thanks.

[jacekkarczmarczyk]

Thank you for the patch, I have some comments and problems:

• how to test v9 branch? ;) When I did composer require phpfastcache/phpfastcache:v9 it installed version 9.0, when I did composer require phpfastcache/phpfastcache:dev-v9 I got an error Could not find package phpfastcache/phpfastcache in a version matching "dev-v9" and a stability matching "dev". (I have "minimum-stability": "dev", in my composer.json)
• the issue title (as well as the description in the testcase) is wrong, the error was thrown on reading, not on saving
• how about using \DateTime::createFromInterface instead of \DateTime::createFromImmutable?

[jacekkarczmarczyk]

Update: I've managed to install it with composer require phpfastcache/phpfastcache:v9.x-dev, I'm getting a different error though which now I'm investigating

Update2: new error was not related to phpfastcache, so looks good for me except these 2 small suggestions from the previous comment

[Geolim4]

I will fix them, thanks.

[Geolim4]

how about using \DateTime::createFromInterface instead of \DateTime::createFromImmutable

Finally, I will keep the code as is, since I will made the same fix on the v8.1 and the v8.1 is still php 7.3 compatible, however \DateTime::createFromInterface has been added in PHP 8.

[Geolim4]

Since the 9.1.0 have been released recently, please except the 9.1.1 to be released by the end of the week, maybe the next one.

[jacekkarczmarczyk]

I've switched to DateTime as a workaround, when you release 9.1.1 I'll go back to DateTimeInterface, no hurry
Thanks!