config/app.php providers array

[unstoppablecarl]

It appears that the providers array in config/app.php CAN NOT be overridden in something like config.local/app.php. Is there a way around this? What other config data cannot be changed using cascading config?

[phanan]

It appears that the providers array in config/app.php be overridden in something like config.local/app.php

Isn't this the expected behavior? Can you elaborate?

[DeverStyle]

Old discussion on the same topic, the idea is that you don't want to replicate/maintain the entire providers array in 2 places. You only want to add the dev providers for the local environment.

[phanan]

Thanks @DeverStyle, I get it now. So apparently you can work around with append_config(), which is still available in L5.

[DeverStyle]

It looks like here for app.providers the arrays are 0 indexed so the local providers would replace existing production providers instead of appending.

[phanan]

Well actually I've done a quick check, and it seems app.providers is not overridden:

config/app.php:

    'providers' => [
        'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ArtisanServiceProvider',
        'Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider',
        'Illuminate\Bus\BusServiceProvider',
        'Illuminate\Cache\CacheServiceProvider',
        'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ConsoleSupportServiceProvider',
        'Illuminate\Routing\ControllerServiceProvider',
        'Illuminate\Cookie\CookieServiceProvider',
        // etc etc.

local.config/app.php:

    'providers' => [
        'funny',
    ],

print_r(config('app.providers')) gives:

Array
(
    [0] => funny
    [1] => Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider
    [2] => Illuminate\Bus\BusServiceProvider
    [3] => Illuminate\Cache\CacheServiceProvider
    [4] => Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ConsoleSupportServiceProvider
    [5] => Illuminate\Routing\ControllerServiceProvider
    [6] => Illuminate\Cookie\CookieServiceProvider
    [7] => Illuminate\Database\DatabaseServiceProvider
    [8] => Illuminate\Encryption\EncryptionServiceProvider
    // you get the idea
)

[DeverStyle]

[0] => funny instead of 'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ArtisanServiceProvider',

it works with append_config

[phanan]

Oh oh. Yeah I saw it. Let me try again.

[phanan]

Alright, here you go:

local.config/app.php:

'providers' => append_config([
    'funny',
]),

yields

Array
(
    [0] => Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ArtisanServiceProvider
    [1] => Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider
    [2] => Illuminate\Bus\BusServiceProvider
    [3] => Illuminate\Cache\CacheServiceProvider
    [4] => Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ConsoleSupportServiceProvider
    [5] => Illuminate\Routing\ControllerServiceProvider
    [6] => Illuminate\Cookie\CookieServiceProvider
    [7] => Illuminate\Database\DatabaseServiceProvider
    [8] => Illuminate\Encryption\EncryptionServiceProvider
    [9] => Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemServiceProvider
    [10] => Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\FoundationServiceProvider
    [11] => Illuminate\Hashing\HashServiceProvider
    [12] => Illuminate\Mail\MailServiceProvider
    [13] => Illuminate\Pagination\PaginationServiceProvider
    [14] => Illuminate\Pipeline\PipelineServiceProvider
    [15] => Illuminate\Queue\QueueServiceProvider
    [16] => Illuminate\Redis\RedisServiceProvider
    [17] => Illuminate\Auth\Passwords\PasswordResetServiceProvider
    [18] => Illuminate\Session\SessionServiceProvider
    [19] => Illuminate\Translation\TranslationServiceProvider
    [20] => Illuminate\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider
    [21] => Illuminate\View\ViewServiceProvider
    [22] => App\Providers\AppServiceProvider
    [23] => App\Providers\BusServiceProvider
    [24] => App\Providers\ConfigServiceProvider
    [25] => App\Providers\EventServiceProvider
    [26] => App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider
    [27] => PhanAn\CascadingConfig\CascadingConfigServiceProvider
    [10000] => funny
)

So I guess, append_config() then?

[DeverStyle]

yes, you could update the readme to point people in the right direction.

[phanan]

Great idea @DeverStyle. Will do in a minute.

[DeverStyle]

The append_config fix didn't work for me, I got it working as described here by creating a LocalServiceProvider and registering dev providers in there.

[unstoppablecarl]

There is a typo in my original comment. It should say:

It appears that the providers array in config/app.php CAN NOT be overridden in something like config.local/app.php. Is there a way around this? What other config data cannot be changed using cascading config?

Sorry for the confusion.

[phanan]

It appears that the providers array in config/app.php CAN NOT be overridden in something like config.local/app.php

Then I can say I can't replicate that. See above for the discussion between @DeverStyle and me. Do you think you can provide more info?

[langemike]

Since cascading-config is a provider itself, you have to (re)register the missing providers after the current ones are registered.

What you could do, is extend the Illuminate\Foundation\Application and add a new method:

public function registerMissingConfiguredProviders() {
        $this->afterBootstrapping('Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\RegisterProviders', function($app) {
            $app->registerConfiguredProviders();
        });
}

And add a call to this new method in it's __construct

public function __construct($basePath = null)
{
    parent::__construct($basePath);
    $this->registerMissingConfiguredProviders();
}

Since $app->register does a check for already loaded providers, i believe it doesn't causes a lot of extra overhead.