Remove dependencies on older version of Zend Framework?

[visto9259]

The original ZfcRbac allows dependencies on Zf2.
Should we remove these dependencies?

[daveearley]

Hi there 👋 ,

We're migrating a small service from 2.X Zend over to Laminas and we're running into an issue due to the old Zend dependencies. Is there a plan to update the 2.X versions to use Laminas dependencies and re-tag? and if there's no immediate plan would you be happy to accept PRs with the changes? Cheers!

[visto9259]

Can you provide more details on where you are having issues? LmcRbacMvc is the former ZfcRbac v2. We split the former ZfcRbac into two libraries;

• LmcRbac is equivalent to ZfcRbac v3 (which was never officially released).
• LmcRbacMvc is the equivalent to ZfcRbac v2.

[daveearley]

Thanks for getting back. The issue we're having is that when we migrated to Laminas 2.X the service manager is unable to create an instance for Zend\Authentication\AuthenticationService when trying to load RedirectStrategyFactory.

Unfortunately we are unable to jump this legacy service to v3 so we were looking for a way to use the 2.X version but without the Zend dependencies.

[visto9259]

I must admit that the library versioning is a little confusing. Everything tagged as 2.x is the old ZfcRbac 2.x code. Version 3.x is the version ported to Laminas. We have no plans at the moment to convert older 2.x code to Laminas. "We" in this context is pretty much only me supporting it with limited bandwidth.

Is something in v3 of this library preventing you from using it or is it something else in your app?

[daveearley]

No problem at all, thanks for the response!

Is something in v3 of this library preventing you from using it or is it something else in your app?

Unfortunately we can't use v3 as it would require a jump to v3 Laminas which our legacy service can't support

[visto9259]

No problem at all, thanks for the response!

Is something in v3 of this library preventing you from using it or is it something else in your app?

Unfortunately we can't use v3 as it would require a jump to v3 Laminas which our legacy service can't support

I have not tested it using a v2 Laminas but there are no significant code changes from ZfcRbac 2.x to LmcRbacMvc 3.x other than changes in the references to Laminas. The composer requirements were bumped to Laminas v3 only but in theory they could include the v2 Laminas dependencies.

I think that what would be needed to support Laminas v2 is to test it on a v2 framework. Did you try to fork this library and update composer to add back the v2 dependencies?

[daveearley]

Not yet but I think that's the route we'll be going down, I'll let you know how I get on. Many thanks for the help!

[visto9259]

Moved to LM-Commons/LmcRbacMvc#4