Unfinalize

Unleash the freedom lost with open source PHP packages marking classes and methods as final.

Unfinalize uses PHP CS Fixer to permanently remove final keywords from composer vendor packages:

- final class Foo
+ class Foo
{
-   final public function bar()
+   public function bar()
    {
        // ...
    }
}

• Updates to PHP files are done safely, quickly, and performant.
• Changes are stored permanently. There is no performance impact using Unfinalize.
• No additional dependencies to your application. Unfinalize and its dependencies are compiled into a single phar file.

Installation

composer require stevebauman/unfinalize

Usage

Inside your composer.json file, add the vendor packages you want to remove the final keywords from inside:

{
    "unfinalize": [
        "vendor/package"
    ]
}

Add the unfinalize command to your composer.json so it runs on composer update:

{
  "scripts": {
    "post-update-cmd": [
      "@php vendor/bin/unfinalize run"
    ]
  }
}

Then, run composer update.

Options

--annotate={annotation}

If you would like final classes and methods to be marked with an annotation (@{annotation}) doc block after unfinalizing, you may add the --annotate option to the unfinalize command:

If an annotation already exists in a doc block then it will be left untouched.

{
  "scripts": {
    "post-update-cmd": [
      "@php vendor/bin/unfinalize run --annotate=internal"
    ]
  }
}

Which will produce:

Before:

final class Foo
{
    final public function bar()
    {
        // ...
    }
}

After:

/**
 * @internal
 */
class Foo
{
    /**
     * @internal
     */
    public function bar()
    {
        // ...
    }
}

--properties={protected/public}

If you would like to change the visibility of private properties to protected or public, you may add the --properties option to the unfinalize command with the new visibility to assign:

{
  "scripts": {
    "post-update-cmd": [
      "@php vendor/bin/unfinalize run --properties=protected"
    ]
  }
}

Which will produce:

Before:

class Foo
{
    private $bar;
}

After:

class Foo
{
    protected $bar;
}

--methods={protected/public}

If you would like to change the visibility of private methods to protected or public, you may add the --methods option to the unfinalize command with the new visibility to assign:

{
  "scripts": {
    "post-update-cmd": [
      "@php vendor/bin/unfinalize run --methods=public"
    ]
  }
}

Which will produce:

Before:

class Foo
{
    private function bar()
    {
    }
}

After:

class Foo
{
    public function bar()
    {
    }
}

--dry

Execute a dry run to see what files will be modified by Unfinalize:

vendor/bin/unfinalize run --dry