`composer require google/apiclient` fails

[mallorydxw]

Running composer require google/apiclient adds an abnormally huge number of files. And this causes problems when phar-install is used as a post-update-cmd.

In a fairly normal theme that requires google/apiclient, if I run composer install --no-dev, I get these results:

% find vendor | wc -l
5055
% find vendor/google | wc -l
4462

(It more than octuples the number of files.)

Here's the error it generates:

Adding file: vendor/google/apiclient-services/Google/Service/Dfareporting/Recipient.php
Adding file: vendor/google/apiclient-services/Google/Service/Dfareporting/RemarketingList.php
Adding file: vendor/google/apiclient-services/Google/Service/Dfareporting/EventTag.php
Adding file: vendor/google/apiclient-services/Google/Service/Dfareporting/PricingSchedulePricingPeriod.php
Adding file: vendor/google/apiclient-services/Google/Service/Dfareporting/ReportList.php
Adding file: vendor/google/apiclient-services/Google/Service/Dfareporting/DirectorySiteContactsListResponse.php

Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json to its original content.


  [Symfony\Component\Process\Exception\ProcessTimedOutException]              
  The process "vendor/bin/phar-install" exceeded the timeout of 300 seconds.  


require [--dev] [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--no-plugins] [--no-progress] [--no-update] [--update-no-dev] [--update-with-dependencies] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--sort-packages] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [-a|--classmap-auth
oritative] [--] [<packages>]...

✖ 6:14

Due to the fact that phar-install runs composer install --no-dev it roughly doubles the execution time of a normal composer install command.

I tried commenting out the echo line from phar-install but that doesn't help.

I think a proper fix would look like this:

• Before we do anything, print a message along the lines of "if this command exits early, run this instead: composer xxx --no-hooks && vendor/bin/phar-install" (hopefully we can replace xxx with the actual command that was used)
• Show a progress bar (or just a throbber bar) while we run composer install --no-dev
• Show a progress bar while files are added to the PHAR files (count the files, and count as they're added)

This way, the user will not think phar-install has stalled because it's sitting there producing no output, and if the command fails the error message will be on the current screen of text, not 5,000 lines above.

[mallorydxw]

The workaround:

composer require google/apiclient --no-update && composer update --no-scripts && vendor/bin/phar-install

(Require doesn't have a --no-scripts option, so we have to go the circuitous route. This has the side-effect of updating other dependencies unlike a normal require action.)