'Unknown Error'

[ohnotnow]

Sorry to be the first person to add an issue :-/ Especially as it's such a vague one...

Installed the plugin but when I run it I just get the vscode error dialog at the top of the page saying 'Simple PHP CS Fixer: Unknown error.' I can run php-cs-fixer fix path/to/the/same/file.php in the terminal and it works ok. There's nothing being logged in the output/problems/terminal - so I'm not even sure where to start fixing it myself - sorry :-/ If there's anything I can do in vscode to help just let me know and I can stop annoying you ;-)

[ohnotnow]

Ah - discovered the developer tools which shows :

  [InvalidArgumentException]                                                              
  The configuration "/Users/ohffs/Documents/code/project/.php_cs.dist" is not defined.  

But the file does exist and if I run php-cs-fixer with the --config-file pointing at it then it works ok. It's quite possible I'm doing something really dim :-)

[calebporzio]

What happens if you run:
php-cs-fixer fix yourfile.php --config=/Users/ohffs/Documents/code/project/.php_cs.dist?

[ohnotnow]

That runs fine too I'm afraid.

I tried removing the extension and re-installing it in a new project. On first run I get both the 'Unknown error' and a 'Cannot find .php_cs.dist' one. If I create the dist file then it's back to just the unknown error, but this time in the dev tools I get :

[Symfony\Component\Filesystem\Exception\IOException] Failed to write file ".php_cs.cache", "no reason available".

Not entirely sure it's related, but I see similar errors being reported on the formatter extension here : vysker/vscode-php-formatter#15

[calebporzio]

By any chance, are you on windows? - I just uploaded a fix that makes this extension cross-platform

[ohnotnow]

No - not on Windows I'm afraid. That way lies madness ;-) I'll maybe have a play with it again tomorrow and see if I can get you some more useful info. It's probably just some weird quirk of the way my machines are set up :-) I'm sure you'd have more people pestering you if it was a common issue :-)

[calebporzio]

K, cool - let me know. I wouldn't be too sure, I imagine it has something to do with the php-cs-fixer being run in a node chid-process using spawn, and that may be blocking symfony from writing to the file? I don't know

Let me know what you find - thanks!

[ohnotnow]

Sorry for the delay - I got a colleague at work to try installing the plugin (they'd never had php-cs-fixer installed at all) and hit exactly the same issue on their Mac. Sadly, the debug tools just give the same helpful-not-helpful 'unknown error' message - sorry.

Not at all sure it's related, but when I run it on yet another Mac I get the same unknown error - but also :

[Extension Host] 
                                                               
  [ErrorException]                                             
  tempnam(): file created in the system's temporary directory  
                                                               
console.ts:123 [Extension Host] fix [--config CONFIG] [--config-file [CONFIG-FILE]] [--dry-run] [--level LEVEL] [--fixers FIXERS] [--diff] [--format FORMAT] [--] [<path>]

Which is possibly related, or possibly not. I can see a ref to a similar thing here about a change in php 7.1 which is what I and my colleagues machines are running.

Anyway - if none of that helps feel free to close the issue :-) If I get time to debug more I will gently prod you ;-)

[redenz]

I've had the same "Unknown Error" pop up repeatedly as well. Debug logs seems to indicate it can't write to the .php_cs.cache file. When I try setting "simple-php-cs-fixer.usingCache": false vscode is telling me it's an unknown option.

[cashlion]

I'm seeing the same issue as @redenz.

From the console:

Failed to write file ".php_cs.cache", "no reason available".

Is there a way to disable the cache?

[jamesratcliffe]

I'm getting the same error. macOS 10.14.1, VSCode 1.29.1.

As a workaround, I was able to disable the cache in my config file:

<?php

return PhpCsFixer\Config::create()
    ->setUsingCache(false);

[calebporzio]

Any thoughts on how we could fix this in the plugin? I get the same error. Maybe add a flag to the command? Or do something with permissions?

[jamesratcliffe]

I don't know much about VS Code extensions. Unless getArgs() isn't working for some reason, it looks like removing lines 35-37 would turn off caching always.

For some reason, the usingCache (and rules) aren't showing up in VS Code. I tried adding
"simple-php-cs-fixer.usingCache": false to my user settings, but it still doesn't work.

[edalzell]

How are you folks seeing the errors? I'm getting the unknown error when I try to use a config file .php_cs.dist that I made from the Laravel gist

[redenz]

vscode developer console

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[edalzell]

The Debug Console? Nothing is shown when I run it, unfortunately.

[redenz]

Not the debug console. There’s VSCode developer tools. I think it’s under the help menu. It will open up a chrome developer console and show you the errors.

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[edalzell]

So there's an error AND it seems to be loading the default, yet double quotes are not being converted to single quotes as per the default.

If I run it from the command line it DOES work though, so it's somehow not being applied to the current file.

If I take out my rule and turn off the custom config there are no errors yet the file is NOT processed. WTH.

[brada1703]

Was anyone able to solve this? I keep getting the same error as well. 😢

[ghost]

I get this error everyone once in a while and it just breaks my projects. Any solutions?