Application meta broken in laravel 11

[chack1172]

Versions:

• ide-helper Version: 3.3.0
• Laravel Version: 11.0
• PHP Version: 8.2

Description:

In laravel 11 the docblock return type of app() function has changed using generics. Now when called without arguments his return type is \Illuminate\Foundation\Application.
Before it was \Illuminate\Contracts\Foundation\Application|\Illuminate\Foundation\Application

With this change overrides in .phpstorm.meta.php are not working when calling app()->make(...).

Manually adding the Contract type to the return variable makes it work again:

[chack1172]

This change also breaks the return type of the app() helper when parameters are provided.
In vscode intelephense ignores metadata if templates are used: bmewburn/vscode-intelephense#3142

[chack1172]

An easy fix for this would be to add the definition of the function with the old docblock when generating .phpstorm.meta.php file:

/**
 * Get the available container instance.
 *
 * @param  string|null  $abstract
 * @param  array  $parameters
 * @return \Illuminate\Contracts\Foundation\Application|\Illuminate\Foundation\Application|mixed
 */
function app($abstract = null, array $parameters = []) {}

[barryvdh]

I think it's a PHPstorm bug; https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-78351

[chack1172]

I'm not sure about PHPstom, but in vscode with intelephense extension meta overrides are not used if method has a phpdoc with templates used. So calling app() with a string parameter will always return mixed because overrides are not used in this case.