Script to extract hooks

[thomasnares]

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Branch?	8.x
Description?	Cleaned the script to generate hook list, but there are still some bugs on regex.

This script allows to extract hooks for documentation for devdocs, from a release archive, or from a directory

Usage is documented within the script

But it must be finished and fixed:

Issues with this script:

• Fix some regexes to match hooks in codebase (you must scan all files, and identify where hooks are called)
• Fix the name cleaning array (linked with regex matching)
• Detect if hooks uses check_exceptions, chain and array_return

I'm still not sure we can match all hooks with regexes against the codebase.

Solution

Another approach would be to refactor the HookFinder with the famous php-parser library which produces AST : https://github.com/nikic/php-parser (the one used by PHPStan to detect bugs).

As the hook list is in perpetual evolution and changes at every release, this should be a priority to fix this script and use it regularely