Codeception generated functional test raising error 'use statement with non-compound name'

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I'm trying to run codeception tests written by another dev at my organization. I'm on php 5.6 and this is a laravel 5 app with codeception 2.1. The specific error that I'm getting is The use statement with non-compound name 'FunctionalTester' has no effect

Every codeception-generated functional test in our directory includes the line use \FunctionalTester;; i can suppress the error just by adding as ft; to the end of the line, but that's not the point.

in some other examples online i see the keyword namespace instead of use here.

as a final example, the command php ./vendor/bin/codecept generate:cest functional foo generates the following file, (which will raise that error)

use \FunctionalTester;

class fooCest
{
  public function _before(FunctionalTester $I)
  {
  }blah blah blah

btw, php is not my main language. Even if this use with no namespace were redundant, i don't see the point of raising on it. OK! Thanks!

The error for using use with an object in the global namespace - a non-compound object. The code causing it is generated automatically by codeception. It is only happening on my system as far as I can tell. — erikdstock
– erikdstock, Commented Jan 8, 2016 at 3:47
I am trying to figure out what your question is because all there is here is statements. :) — lagbox
– lagbox, Commented Jan 8, 2016 at 3:48
I'm wondering why I am getting an error from code generated by the codeception framework when it doesn't seem to be an issue for others. I guess my question is about running tests without raising an exception on line 2. — erikdstock
– erikdstock, Commented Jan 8, 2016 at 4:22

Naktibalda · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-08 10:09:43Z

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Upgrade Codeception to 2.1.5, this issue is fixed already: https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception/commit/892f85388c8dd2c57e120f9a3e225074a9ae175b

answered Jan 8, 2016 at 10:09

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jedrzej.kurylo · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-08 07:22:16Z

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Remove

use \FunctionalTester;

The reason you're getting that warning is that while being in global namespace you're trying to import a class from a global namespace, which is not needed and hence has no effect.

answered Jan 8, 2016 at 7:22

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