Pipeline error when checking php style with PHP_CODESniffer

[fm42]

Hello,

I have the following error when I'm using this script in Pipelines.

I'm trying

1. to check the root folder of my git repository  path is "/"
2. to exclude "PHP_CodeSniffer" folder

Here is the Fatal Error :

Fatal error: Uncaught UnexpectedValueException: RecursiveDirectoryIterator::__construct(//dev/fd/4/sys/class/thermal/cooling_device1/device/physical_node/node0/cpu7/driver/cpu5/firmware_node/subsystem/devices/device:06/physical_node/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1/nvme0n1p9/subsystem/md127/md/dev-nvme1n1/block/device/device/subsystem/devices/0000:00:01.0/firmware_node/PNP0B00:00/physical_node/subsystem/devices/00:04/tty/ttyS0/subsystem/ttyS2/device/subsystem/devices/i8042/serio0/input/input0/subsystem/input1/device/driver/LNXSLPBN:00/driver/LNXPWRBN:00/subsystem/devices/LNXSYBUS:00/LNXCPU:01/physical_node/power): failed to open dir: Too many levels of symbolic links in /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/PHP_CodeSniffer/src/Filters/Filter.php:135Stack trace:#0 /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/PHP_CodeSniffer/src/Filters/Filter.php(135): RecursiveDirectoryIterator->__construct('//dev/fd/4/sys/...', 4608)#1 /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/PHP_CodeSniffer/src/Files/FileList.php(86): PHP_CodeSniffer\Filters\Filter->getChildre in /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/PHP_CodeSniffer/src/Filters/Filter.php on line 135

Do you have any idea what happen?

Regards,

[Jeroen De Raedt]

Hi @fm42,

I am not too familiar with PHP CodeSniffer, but I found this in their docs: 

If you run PHP_CodeSniffer without specifying a coding standard, PHP_CodeSniffer will look in the current directory, and all parent directories, for a file called either .phpcs.xml, phpcs.xml, .phpcs.xml.dist, or phpcs.xml.dist. If found, configuration information will be read from this file, including the files to check, the coding standard to use, and any command line arguments to apply.

https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/wiki/Advanced-Usage#using-a-default-configuration-file 

So I suspect you get the error because it tries to find configuration files. I wasn't able to find an option to turn this off. Might be worth raising an issue on CodeSniffer's issue page? https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/issues