Operations

Cross-cutting flags and workflows for the meta file generator.

Include/Exclude Plugins

Many plugins do not need to be "loaded" — those would normally not be included in the generator tasks. If you want to add some not-loaded plugins into the list of plugins to process, use:

'IdeHelper' => [
    'plugins' => [
        'MyNotLoadedPlugin',
        '-BlacklistedLoadedPlugin',
    ],
],

With the - prefix you can even exclude loaded plugins from being processed.

CI or Pre-Commit Check

Using -d (dry run) you will get error code 2 if the file would need updating:

bin/cake generate phpstorm -d

This way you can automate the check for CI tooling or commit hooks.

Reusing Argument Sets

You can reuse argument sets that are present from any of the built-in or your custom tasks.

In verbose mode the console gives you the available sets for re-use:

bin/cake generate phpstorm -v

You can then directly make use of them in any matching directive (for such lists):

• ExpectedArguments
• ExpectedReturnValues