vendor/cakephp-plugins.php for plugins

[mirko-pagliai]

I have had this problem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39254126/cakephp-loads-plugin-for-test/39256083#39256083

Briefly: the plugin FirstPlugin uses the plugin SecondPlugin, installed with composer.
No problem normally.

By writing the tests for plugin FirstPlugin, the pluginSecondPlugin was not found.

At the end I realized that the file FirstPlugin/vendor/cakephp-plugins.php was missing.

So I did a test. In an app I tried deleting the vendor directory and I saw that the file is re-created.

Then I deleted the FirstPlugin/vendor directory and the file is not re-created automatically.

Is it normal?

[markstory]

Composer dependencies shouldn't be recursively installed which is why there is no vendor/cake-plugins.php inside FirstPlugin. I'm not sure I completely understand what's going on though.

[mirko-pagliai]

The problem is here:
http://api.cakephp.org/3.2/source-class-Cake.Core.Plugin.html#134

For nested plugins:

$config['path'] = Configure::read('plugins.' . $plugin);

returns NULL.

[lorenzo]

We don't support nested plugins

[mirko-pagliai]

@lorenzo ok, so if I need to test a plugin that loads and uses other plugins, I have to indicate the path manually for these?

[lorenzo]

Yeah, that is a way... I usually just manually include all the dependent plugins in the composer.json of the main repo until I publish the plugin.

[mirko-pagliai]

@lorenzo how to do with composer?

My composer.json (of FirstPlugin):

"autoload-dev": {
    "psr-4": {
        "SecondPlugin\\": "vendor/SecondPlugin-path/src",
        "FirstPlugin\\Test\\": "tests",
    }
},

My tests/bootstrap.php:

Plugin::load('SecondPlugin', ['autoload' => true, 'bootstrap' => true]);

But, nothing to do, MissingPluginException.

[lorenzo]

You need to move the json you have in your plugin and inline it in your app's composer. Composer only cares about the top level json file

[mirko-pagliai]

@lorenzo, i'm testing my plugin. The plugin path is the root path! So its composer.json is the top level!

[ADmad]

Did you run composer install in folder containing that composer.json?

[mirko-pagliai]

@ADmad yes and the vendor/ directory (inside FirstPlugin) contains the plugin properly