Cannot redeclare Stringy\create() about stringy

[thinkspill]

I happened upon this thread while researching this same issue. After a bit more poking, I discovered that I was running PHPUnit without passing in the -c phpunit.xml argument, which caused phpunit to try executing all tests from the root of my project, including all tests in vendor/. Passing this argument to phpunit made this particular error go away (and on to the next one... :).

[danielstjules]

Thanks for pointing that out! Should be fixed in d6fa00b

[crynobone]

Can you tag a minor release, e.g 1.8.1 so we can grab the fix :)

Thanks.

[danielstjules]

https://github.com/danielstjules/Stringy/releases/tag/1.8.1 :)

[markuskoehler]

I just experienced a similar error when running automatic tests through Atlassian Bamboo.

Using v1.8.1 doesn't help and 1.10.* doesn't work as well. Is it possible to fix this?

Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
  - Removing danielstjules/stringy (1.8.1)
  - Installing danielstjules/stringy (1.10.0)
    Loading from cache

Writing lock file
Generating autoload files
> php artisan optimize
PHP Fatal error:  Cannot redeclare class Stringy\Stringy in /opt/atlassian/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/MKIT-WDSA-JOB1/vendor/danielstjules/stringy/src/Stringy.php on line 5

[danielstjules]

Do you have a small reproduce case? Is it possible that your autoloading is indeed trying to load Stringy twice?

[markuskoehler]

Well, initially I did not call it explicitely in my composer.json, but it is of course a dependency of Laravel Framework (v.5.1.19), so I cannot get rid of it. This exception only occurs when running the build in Atlassian Bamboo, not in my local dev environment or on any other dev environment where I have worked with Laravel previously.

Would it maybe help to check if Stringy is already initialized when trying to redeclare it? Can you implement such check?

[danielstjules]

It's possible to prevent it using something like if (!class_exists('String\Stringy')) { }, but Stringy isn't at fault for this error. Something is trying to load the file a second time, be it composer, bamboo, etc.

[danielstjules]

Thanks for the explanation @thinkspill ! Super helpful :)

[taviroquai]

OMG, I assumed that running phpunit from Laravel folder would load phpunit.xml by default. I was getting crasy about this error.
Nice catch @thinkspill