How to replace the 3rd party dependency

[kenorb]

My composer.json:

{
  "require-dev": {
    "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "5.3.x-dev as 5.0.0",
    "aeris/guzzle-http-mock": ">=1.1.5"
  }
}

I'm trying to replace requirement for guzzlehttp/guzzle (required by aeris/guzzle-http-mock) and use 5.3.x-dev version instead of 5.0.0.

Also I've tried to use replace section, e.g.

  "replace": {
    "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "5.3.x-dev"
  }

However I've got still the following error:

  Problem 1
    - aeris/guzzle-http-mock 1.1.5 requires guzzlehttp/guzzle ~5.0.0 -> no matching package found.
    - aeris/guzzle-http-mock 1.1.5 requires guzzlehttp/guzzle ~5.0.0 -> no matching package found.
    - Installation request for aeris/guzzle-http-mock 1.1.5 -> satisfiable by aeris/guzzle-http-mock[1.1.5].

Is it possible to achieve the above? To replace the version provided by composer.json hosted on packagist?

[stof]

What do you mean by replacing the requirement ?

[stof]

btw, if the library says it supports only 5.0.* of guzzle, forcing it to install alongisde 5.3 may create weird issues.

[kenorb]

@stof I'd like to install aeris/guzzle-http-mock, however the package has hardcoded:

"guzzlehttp/guzzle": "~5.0.0"

where I'd like to lower the expectation and install ^5.0 or 5.3 (since 5.0.0 doesn't support PHP7, but higher version of that branch fixed already such incompatibility). Since the package is no longer maintained, I need to find some workarounds, ideally without republishing my own fork.

[stof]

Well, you should first try to get this change in the library itself. And then, a better solution to solve your issue is to use a forked version of the mock library (adding support for newer Guzzle versions) until the change is merged upstream instead of aliasing guzzle (which may affect other packages, and create weird issues due to lying on the actual version of Guzzle)

See https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/aliases.md#require-inline-alias for the way to use a fork temporarily.

[kenorb]

The package is not maintained anymore and there is another fork at systemhaus/GuzzleHttpMock, but it's supporting Guzzle 6, which my code can't yet (too big change yet), so what you're saying, I should create another fork and publish on packagist with specific dependencies which I want to test. I thought you can use replace or as to replace these dependencies, but it sounds like you cannot.

I've also tested --prefer-source, but it's still reads the dependencies from the packagist, instead of the local source code.

I've also tried to patch composer.json (extra/patches), but again, nothing is downloaded yet since the dependencies are checked at the start (in cache files downloaded from packagist), so nothing is read from actual source code files.

My other idea was to test the new dependencies by editing cache file directly, but it's in a bit different format.

Shouldn't Composer allow to do that in the first place? Is there any planned feature to bypass such limitations? Or can I report one?

[Seldaek]

The inline alias you used should have worked so not sure what was going on there, but anyway closing as hopefully it's resovled by now. And no publishing forks on packagist is not the way, you should define the repository in your composer.json and not pollute packagist :)

[hayden-t]

I found that just putting the alias require in my composer.json didnt have effect, i had to use require command instead to add it, and then i could require my old package

php composer.phar require "guzzlehttp/guzzle:7.4.5 as 6.3"
php composer.phar require mitchdav/st-george-ipg "1.0.0"

[tiller1010]

I had a similar issue. The inline alias did work for me.