Issue: #1718 Commits: 047111e9d (the fix) + 7287257e4 (regression suite + code-review corrections) Branch: fix/issue-1718 Status: VERIFIED-FIXED (2026-09-29)

lib/results/tcNotRunAnyPlatform.php — the 1.9.20 "Test Report: Test Cases not run on any Platform" controller — could not run at all. Every request to /lib/results/tcNotRunAnyPlatform.php?tplan_id=<id> as any user holding testplan_metrics answered HTTP 500 with a 0-byte body:

[26/Sep/29 13:38:01][WARNING][<nosession>][GUI]
	E_WARNING
require_once(results.class.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory
  - in .../lib/results/tcNotRunAnyPlatform.php - Line 16
[<<][6abbbf393d625757766614][DEFAULT][/lib/results/tcNotRunAnyPlatform.php][26/Sep/29 13:38:01][26/Sep/29 13:38:01][took 0.00275 secs]

Note the timing: one request, one warning, done in 2.75 ms. This is a hard fatal, not a hang and not a loop — anyone chasing a "slow report" theory would have been wrong.

It went unnoticed because the report was also missing from cfg/reports.cfg.php, so nothing in the Reports ASIDE menu ever linked it. #1717 re-registered the report pointing at a modern screen and filed this bug.

Environment. App http://localhost:8082 (PHP built-in server, docroot = repo root); MariaDB 127.0.0.1:3306/testlink (testlink/testlink), freshly imported; user admin (id 1, role 8) — holds testplan_metrics. Dataset rebuilt for the run by php tmp/fixtures_1717.php: test project 1 (prefix TNR1717), test plan 2, platforms 1 = Windows 11 / 2 = Linux Ubuntu 22, build 1 (active+open) + build 2 (CLOSED), 5 test cases, 4 executions, plus a no-rights user tnrap1717norights (role 3).

Repro (the BFF login is CSRF-guarded, so a same-origin Origin header is required):

curl -s -c cj.txt -b cj.txt http://localhost:8082/login.php -o /dev/null
curl -s -c cj.txt -b cj.txt -X POST http://localhost:8082/api/auth/login \
     -H "Origin: http://localhost:8082" -d "login=admin&password=admin"
curl -s -b cj.txt "http://localhost:8082/lib/results/tcNotRunAnyPlatform.php?tplan_id=2" \
     -o /dev/null -w "HTTP %{http_code}\n"      # → HTTP 500, 0 bytes

Measured, layer by layer.

The probe file was deleted immediately afterwards; it never entered the tree.

Four independent hard failures, all measured before a single line was changed:

1. :16 — require_once('results.class.php'). The file does not exist, and the class it defined has no surviving implementation, so the include is a hard fatal.
2. :49 — // $re = new results(...) is commented out, while :62 still runs $re->getMapOfLastResult() → Undefined variable $re then Call to a member function getMapOfLastResult() on null.
3. :59 — // $executionsMap = $re->getSuiteList(); is likewise commented out, while :124 reads $executionsMap[$suiteId] and feeds it to sizeOf() at :133 → sizeOf(null) TypeError. Latent: only reached once 1 and 2 are papered over.
4. :37-40 — $tplan_info['name'] / $tproject_info['name'] are read with no null guard. testproject::get_by_id(0) returns null rather than throwing (lib/functions/testproject.class.php:345-355 throws only for NULL), so the failure surfaces at the missing name/prefix — :40 / :42. This fires before the $re fatal whenever no test project is selected.

Why it breaks now: it does not break — it never worked in 2.0.1. The 1.9.20 results class and the getMapOfLastResult() query behind it were dropped when the report query layer was replaced; the controller was left behind, unreachable from the menu, and it rotted unnoticed.

047111e9d deletes the three files:

(Line counts per git show 047111e9d --stat. Neither .tpl ends in a newline, so wc -l undercounts each by one.)

This is the established repo pattern for a modernized screen: the four prior retirements are 332905e56 (cfieldsView), 596444f30 (issuetrackerView), a406f745d (codeTrackerView) and 029342980 (pluginView), all chore(<area>): delete legacy … cluster.

No report is lost. Nothing in the application linked the dead file:

• cfg/reports.cfg.php:270 — the report's url is gui/templates/results/tcNotRunAnyPlatform.html
• lib/general/asideMenu.php:238-240 — the Reports ASIDE entry builds the same modern URL
• lib/functions/common.php:2094-2095 — $actions->tcNotRunAnyPlatform is the same modern URL
• no {include file=…tcNotRunAnyPlatform…} anywhere, and no cfieldsView-style hazard: template ownership is 1:1, because templateConfiguration() derives the template from basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) (lib/functions/common.php:938 → :945 $access_key . '.tpl'), the controller was the only script named tcNotRunAnyPlatform, and no cfg remap exists
• directLink is '', the print/export gateways only ever include lib/results/printDocument.php, and the reports_list consumers (api/resultsnav/index.php:173, api/aside/index.php:118, api/publiclink/index.php:160-161) all read the modern URL

No locale key was removed. link_report_not_run_on_any_platform is still live (cfg/reports.cfg.php:269, lib/general/asideMenu.php:238) and tcversion_indicator is live in 8 other files.

Alternatives considered and rejected:

• Re-add lib/functions/results.class.php — there is no surviving implementation to restore, and the report's semantics are already re-implemented natively on tlTestPlanMetrics::getNeverRunByPlatform(). Writing it would be new code, not a fix.
• Reduce the file to a redirect to the modern screen — it would have zero in-app callers (measured above) and is not the repo pattern.
• Comment out the broken statements — leaves ~200 lines of unreachable code that still advertises itself as a working report, which is the actual complaint.

7287257e4 additionally rewrites the three comments that the deletion made false (lib/general/asideMenu.php, lib/functions/common.php, api/reports/index.php:4872 — they said the dead controller "is not linked"). No logic changed in any of the three.

bash tmp/verify_1718.sh → 19 assertions, 19 PASS, 0 FAIL (exit 0).

The suite is deliberately not only "the file is gone" — a pure existence check would still pass if the deletion had taken the report with it:

Browser verification of the surviving report after the legacy cluster was retired (http://localhost:8082/gui/templates/results/tcNotRunAnyPlatform.html?tproject_id=1&tplan_id=2): renders "Found 3 of 5 test cases in this test plan", one column per platform (Linux Ubuntu 22 / Windows 11), priority Medium, linkto.php?tprojectPrefix=TNR1717&item=testcase&id=… deep links, design + Execution History popups, the "About this report" legend, Elapsed seconds: 0.01 — 0 console errors/warnings. The Reports ASIDE entry still resolves to the modern screen.

Event Viewer: the only log_level<16 rows from the whole session are id 3 (the original require_once warning, i.e. the pre-fix evidence) and the deleted controller's own reproduction probe. Every request after the fix added 0 rows.

Case 5 (no getMapOfLastResult() call site left in lib/) FAILED with 2 on its first run. The two hits were not call sites but the #1717 explanatory comments in lib/general/asideMenu.php:237 and lib/functions/common.php:2089. The real problem was upstream: the "PASS — 0" reported for that case during the fix phase had been produced by a grep run with a stale cd /tmp/opencode still in effect, so lib/ did not exist in the current directory and grep matched nothing while reporting 0 — a silent false PASS. The assertion now strips // and /* */ before counting, which is what the check was supposed to mean.

2 BLOCKERs, 4 SHOULD-FIX, 4 NITs — all resolved:

• BLOCKER — the CHANGELOG claimed "Regression suite 1718 8/8 PASS" while no suite existed (the mandatory FIX-ISSUE.md §5 deliverable). Fixed: tmp/verify_1718.sh + the Regression — Issue #1718 entry in tmp/TLU_Test_Cases.md; the CHANGELOG now cites the real 19/19 PASS and the harness command.
• BLOCKER — two deleted-file line counts were wrong (64/65 → the true 65/66, because wc -l undercounts a file with no trailing newline). Fixed.
• SHOULD-FIX — three of my own claims were imprecise and are now exact: the pre-fix run wrote exactly one warning row (events id 3), not "a row per request"; the :37-40 failure surfaces at :40/:42 because get_by_id(0) returns null; and there was one pre-fix code call site, not two.
• The review confirmed the deletion is safe and complete, and that the scope is exactly right: the single remaining results.class.php consumer in the tree is the unregistered lib/results/priorityBarChart.php:5.

• #1719 — lib/results/priorityBarChart.php:5 requires the same removed ../functions/results.class.php and instantiates the same removed results class at :17. Also unregistered; its line 2 even says //@TODO this file seems not to be in use.
• Four now-permanently-dead locale keys (their only users were the deleted cluster, each still declared in 12 locale/*/strings.txt): title_test_report_not_run_on_any_platform, not_run_any_platform_status_msg, not_run_any_platform_no_platforms, info_tcNotRunAnyPlatform. Reported, not removed — rewriting 12 mixed-encoding catalogues is exactly the drive-by work a one-bug run must not do.

git checkout fix/issue-1718
php tmp/fixtures_1717.php          # recreate the dataset (the DB is imported fresh every run)
bash tmp/verify_1718.sh            # expect: 19 assertions, 19 PASS, 0 FAIL, exit 0
php tmp/test_1717.php              # expect: 40 assertions, 40 PASS, 0 FAIL

Browser: http://localhost:8082/index.php (admin/admin) → Metrics & Reports → Test Cases Not Run on Any Platform. The legacy URL http://localhost:8082/lib/results/tcNotRunAnyPlatform.php?tplan_id=2 must answer 404.