Function deleteDirectoryRecursive
has a Cognitive Complexity of 20 (exceeds 5 allowed). Consider refactoring. Open
public function deleteDirectoryRecursive(string $path, bool $safeDelete = true): bool
{
$path = $this->getAbsolutePathFromRelative($path);
if (empty($path)) {
return false;
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Cognitive Complexity
Cognitive Complexity is a measure of how difficult a unit of code is to intuitively understand. Unlike Cyclomatic Complexity, which determines how difficult your code will be to test, Cognitive Complexity tells you how difficult your code will be to read and comprehend.
A method's cognitive complexity is based on a few simple rules:
- Code is not considered more complex when it uses shorthand that the language provides for collapsing multiple statements into one
- Code is considered more complex for each "break in the linear flow of the code"
- Code is considered more complex when "flow breaking structures are nested"
Further reading
Method writeFile
has 37 lines of code (exceeds 25 allowed). Consider refactoring. Open
public function writeFile(
string $path,
string $content,
bool $minifyHtml
): bool {
Method deleteDirectoryRecursive
has 31 lines of code (exceeds 25 allowed). Consider refactoring. Open
public function deleteDirectoryRecursive(string $path, bool $safeDelete = true): bool
{
$path = $this->getAbsolutePathFromRelative($path);
if (empty($path)) {
return false;
Function writeFile
has a Cognitive Complexity of 10 (exceeds 5 allowed). Consider refactoring. Open
public function writeFile(
string $path,
string $content,
bool $minifyHtml
): bool {
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Cognitive Complexity
Cognitive Complexity is a measure of how difficult a unit of code is to intuitively understand. Unlike Cyclomatic Complexity, which determines how difficult your code will be to test, Cognitive Complexity tells you how difficult your code will be to read and comprehend.
A method's cognitive complexity is based on a few simple rules:
- Code is not considered more complex when it uses shorthand that the language provides for collapsing multiple statements into one
- Code is considered more complex for each "break in the linear flow of the code"
- Code is considered more complex when "flow breaking structures are nested"
Further reading
Refactor this function to reduce its Cognitive Complexity from 19 to the 15 allowed. Open
public function deleteDirectoryRecursive(string $path, bool $safeDelete = true): bool
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- Exclude checks
Cognitive Complexity is a measure of how hard the control flow of a function is to understand. Functions with high Cognitive Complexity will be difficult to maintain.
See
Define a constant instead of duplicating this literal "dirname" 3 times. Open
if (!isset($info['dirname']) || (!\is_dir($info['dirname']) && !\mkdir($info['dirname'], 0777, true))) {
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- Exclude checks
Duplicated string literals make the process of refactoring error-prone, since you must be sure to update all occurrences.
On the other hand, constants can be referenced from many places, but only need to be updated in a single place.
Noncompliant Code Example
With the default threshold of 3:
function run() { prepare('action1'); // Non-Compliant - 'action1' is duplicated 3 times execute('action1'); release('action1'); }
Compliant Solution
ACTION_1 = 'action1'; function run() { prepare(ACTION_1); execute(ACTION_1); release(ACTION_1); }
Exceptions
To prevent generating some false-positives, literals having less than 5 characters are excluded.
Define and throw a dedicated exception instead of using a generic one. Open
throw new \RuntimeException('Finder found unknown file ' . $realPath . ' - this was not created by SupercacheBundle. Inspect this issue manually.');
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- Exclude checks
If you throw a general exception type, such as ErrorException, RuntimeException, or Exception in a library or framework, it forces consumers to catch all exceptions, including unknown exceptions that they do not know how to handle.
Instead, either throw a subtype that already exists in the Standard PHP Library, or create your own type that derives from Exception.
Noncompliant Code Example
throw new Exception(); // Noncompliant
Compliant Solution
throw new InvalidArgumentException(); // or throw new UnexpectedValueException();
See
- MITRE, CWE-397 - Declaration of Throws for Generic Exception
- CERT, ERR07-J. - Do not throw RuntimeException, Exception, or Throwable