Laravel built in casts now have incorrect type documented

[Jefemy]

Versions:

• ide-helper Version: 2.13.0
• Laravel Version: 9.52.0
• PHP Version: 8.1.16

Description:

Using Laravel built in casts such as Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Casts\AsCollection will now return it as its own class, which doesn't actually implement a Collection meaning it will error out even when using it properly. Previously it returned as mixed which at least didn't error. The change causing this is #1388 but is more down to the actual Laravel class not having type hints for the get method. This could be fixed on the Laravel side, or it could be extracted from the docblock return from the castUsing function. I did test with making a modification here but I got stuck as I believe the CastsAttributes wrapper in the docblock would need to be stripped for proper functionality and I wasn't quite sure on the best way to do that

Steps To Reproduce:

• Create a Model like this

class CollectionModel extends Model
{
    public $casts = [
        'collection' => \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Casts\AsCollection::class,
    ];
}

• Generate model docblocks php artisan ide-helper:model -M
• Outputted type is @property \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Casts\AsCollection $collection

[Jefemy]

I am now seeing that #1393 exists but it is also missing types for the 5 other casts that Laravel has. If that turns out to be the proper way to solve this I can make a pull containing all of them.

[jamesrusso]

I'm running into this same issue, wish there was a workaround to just update the config until this is either fixed upstream in laravel or here in this package.

[moussaclarke]

@jamesrusso My workaround is to keep generated model types in separate file and manually over-ride broken types only in the relevant model files.

[AndrewMast]

I was able to fix this by adding the following to the type_overrides setting in the ide-helper config file:

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Property Casts
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Cast the given "real type" to the given "type".
    |
    */
    'type_overrides' => [
        'integer' => 'int',
        'boolean' => 'bool',
        '\\'.AsCollection::class => '\Illuminate\Support\Collection',
        '\\'.AsArrayObject::class => '\ArrayObject',
    ],

[barryvdh]

Fixed with #1393?