Undefined array key "groupName" (Elections broken on CiviCRM >=5.47)

[simonwiles]

As of this morning my CiviCRM cron jobs are returning the following line:

[PHP Warning] Undefined array key "groupName" at /var/www/html/wp-content/uploads/civicrm/ext/au.com.agileware.elections-master/elections.php:513

Any ideas what might be going on here, and how I might debug it? Thanks!

PHP: 8.0.30
CiviCRM: 5.65.2
Elections: 1.2.3

[simonwiles]

The error is caused because the Elections extension is not compatible with the latest CiviCRM code.

https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/hooks/hook_civicrm_alterMailParams/#details

$params array used to include valueName and groupName. These should not be referenced as they will stop working in future upgrades. The option groups they referred to are obsolete & will also be phased out. workflow should be checked instead.

It's not immediately obvious to me how the code should be updated, but this will have to be addressed somehow.

Edit: the parameter Elections is using was officially announced as removed in CiviCRM 5.43 (see here) after being marked as deprecated for over a year (I think the code was actually removed in 5.47). Here's where the code for the CDNTaxReceipts extension was updated to account for the new API. I'm not sure if this fix can be straightforwardly applied mutatis mutandis to Elections or not. Would be grateful for some input from @agileware-justin or someone else who has worked on this (CiviCRM newbie here, and it's been donkeys' years since I've done much php).

[agileware-justin]

What version of PHP is the CLI using?

[simonwiles]

Hi! The CLI's using the same version of PHP as the site: 8.0.30 at time of filing this issue. I have a test environment running on top of the official WordPress docker container, which is currently built on top of php:8.0-fpm.

[nickperkins]

@agileware-justin This is related to a change in the hook interface as @simonwiles mentions, not a php versioning issue. It looks like groupName should now be workflow but I'm not 100% sure.

[agileware-justin]

Should be fixed in the 1.2.5 release. Thanks for your patience.