Avoid useless overriding method

Why you should care

Overring methods is a very powerfull way of factoring the code and produce complete fonctionnalities. However useless overriding methods can be a problem for the simplicity of the source code.

How we detect

CAST Highlight counts one occurrence each time a method only call its parent classes’s method with the same name and arguments.

 

class FooBar {
    public function __construct($a, $b) {
        parent::__construct($a, $b);
    }
}

References

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