composer autoload-dev (OCA\OpenRegister\ → tests/Stubs/) shadows the real OpenRegister classes in production

[rubenvdlinde]

composer.json declares

"autoload-dev": { "psr-4": { "OCA\\OpenRegister\\": "tests/Stubs/" } }

and tests/Stubs/Db/ObjectEntity.php is an abstract stub. When SoftwareCatalog's vendor/ is built with a plain composer install (i.e. with dev deps — which is what gets deployed to the dev container / Nextcloud apps dir), the dev autoloader is active, so its vendor/composer/autoload_psr4.php / autoload_classmap.php map OCA\OpenRegister\Db\ObjectEntity → tests/Stubs/Db/ObjectEntity.php. Because every enabled app's vendor/autoload.php is registered globally, that mapping then shadows the real OCA\OpenRegister\Db\ObjectEntity for all apps — so OpenRegister's own MagicSearchHandler::convertRowToObjectEntity() does new ObjectEntity() and PHP fatals with Cannot instantiate abstract class OCA\OpenRegister\Db\ObjectEntity. This takes down OpenRegister's entire object-read path (and therefore every OR-backed app) on a dev install that has SoftwareCatalog enabled. Disabling SoftwareCatalog (so its autoloader is no longer registered) restores OR.

Fixes (any of):

• Deploy SoftwareCatalog with composer install --no-dev so the dev autoloader isn't loaded in production.
• Don't PSR-4-map a foreign namespace (OCA\OpenRegister\) at all — load the stubs only from the PHPUnit bootstrap (tests/bootstrap.php require), not via composer autoload.
• Namespace the stubs under OCA\SoftwareCatalog\Tests\Stubs\… and class_alias() them to OCA\OpenRegister\… only inside the test bootstrap.

(Surfaced while resetting the OpenRegister dev environment — clean-env.sh + re-enabling all ConductionNL apps left OR's object layer crashing until SoftwareCatalog was disabled.)

[rubenvdlinde]

Closing — delivered by merged PR #232 (fix(autoload): don't PSR-4-map OCA\OpenRegister\ in autoload-dev (shadows real OR in prod) — closes #230). The 'closes #230' keyword was present but didn't auto-trigger; closing manually. Broader fleet audit tracked in ConductionNL/.github#89.