[6.x] Fixed deprecated "Doctrine/Common/Inflector/Inflector" class

[andrey-helldar]

The Inflector class is deprecated, use Doctrine\Common\Inflector\Inflector from doctrine/inflector package instead,

New class is non-static Doctrine\Inflector\Inflector::class

I also changed the minimum version for doctrine/inflector package because the earlier 1.1 supports php 5.6 and higher, while Laravel 6.x supports 7.2+.
Package version 1.4 supports php 7.2+.

Also see #32730

[andrey-helldar]

@GrahamCampbell,
Thanks, Graham! I constantly forget about doc-blocks 🙁

[senter-logistics]

will be this merged to the 7.x version? i'm having this error:
Class 'Doctrine\Inflector\Inflector' not found in
/var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Pluralizer.php:135

[GrahamCampbell]

It was merged into 7.x.

[slackernrrd]

This broke som code in a Laravel 6.x project for me after doing composer update, because Eloquent suddenly couldn't find a table due to different pluralization rules in 1.4. It was easy enough to fix by setting the table name explicitly in the affected models, but it was pretty sneaky (and perhaps inevitable) that it just broke.

[GrahamCampbell]

Please report the BC break to the upstream library for them to fix.

[GrahamCampbell]

Their pluralisation rules should be the same as in the 1.3.x series.

[senter-logistics]

I downgraded to php 7.2.30 and now it's working as expected.

[tomcastleman]

IMO changes from this PR will catch people out, as in our case a composer update resulted in doctrine/inflector to be bumped to ^2.0 which breaks BC (in our case with Eloquent model pluralization).

Yes a solution is to manually require doctrine/inflector:^1.4 in the app (or override the table name in the model) but this PR probably shouldn't offer a bump in the major version of that dependency by default.

PHP 7.4.4
Framework update v6.18.10...v6.18.14

[GrahamCampbell]

Those BC breaks are actually not intended. Please report any pluralisation mistakes to the upstream library to be corrected. v1.4 and v2.0 are meant to be identical apart from deprecated code removed.

[GrahamCampbell]

Yes a solution is to manually require doctrine/inflector:^1.4

As I said, this won't work, because 1.4 is the same as 2.0.

[GrahamCampbell]

Please send fix PRs to the upstream library's 1.4 branch or open issues over there if they have broken something. There's nothing we can do here.