Code added to output

[szaleq]

I'm testing a method, which echoes some content (it's a widget for an Elementor WordPress plugin). Since this method does not return anything, and the only way to check if it works properly is to check what it prints to the output, I've designed a test which uses output buffering to capture what the method echoes and test its value. This worked well but suddenly this tests started to fail because there is some patchwork code added to my buffered output - in each test the output is suffixed with this string: \Patchwork\CodeManipulation\Stream::reinstateWrapper();.

Here is a simplified test code (using Pest):

it('renders the widget', function () {
    ob_start();

    $this->widget->render();

    expect(ob_get_clean())->toEqual('assumed_render_result');
});

For example, if my widget's render() method had this code:

echo 'assumed_render_result';

the test should pass. Instead it fails, because the actual output is:
assumed_render_result;\Patchwork\CodeManipulation\Stream::reinstateWrapper();

Why is that? Is is some bug in Patchwork or am I missing something?

Here I found this code in source:

patchwork/src/CodeManipulation/Actions/CodeManipulation.php

Line 16 in 16a1ab8

const STREAM_WRAPPER_REINSTATEMENT_CODE = '\Patchwork\CodeManipulation\Stream::reinstateWrapper();';

but I don't understand why it gets appended to my output buffering result and how to avoid id.

[anomiex]

Can you provide a minimal test case (e.g. as a zip file or small github repo) that reproduces this?

[antecedent]

This does seem like a bug in Patchwork. I agree that a minimal test case would be very helpful in pinning it down.

[remyperona]

I ran into this issue today, and found out that it was happening because I had a file included for output that only contains HTML but uses the .php extension, and no <?php at the beginning of the file.

Once adding the opening PHP tag, it doesn't happen again.