Loses communication with worker when using dump()

[carestad]

Octane Version

2.3.7

Laravel Version

11.3.1

PHP Version

8.3.6

What server type are you using?

Roadrunner

Server Version

2024.1.0

Database Driver & Version

sqlite

Description

I noticed when trying to debug a URL issue, that if you add a dump() (dd() works though) statement inside a closure based route definition (see here), the Roadrunner server will print an error (RoadRunner can't communicate with the worker) and the request gets a 500 response instead. No more info to trace anywhere as far as I can tell.

This might be intentional or by design, but would be nice to have documented if it is.

Steps To Reproduce

Repro repo: https://github.com/carestad/octane-dump-bug

Steps:

1. git clone https://github.com/carestad/octane-dump-bug
2. composer install
3. php artisan octane:start --server roadrunner
4. open http://localhost:8000/foo

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[AlliBalliBaba]

This might be related to 838. dump() just doesn't output anything in Octane. You can try setting $_SERVER['VAR_DUMPER_FORMAT'] = 'html'; before dump() and see if it helps.

[sy-records]

Duplicate of #856

[driesvints]

thanks all. Looks like we're not taking any action here, sorry.

[whendryo-wytech]

An alternative is to include VAR_DUMPER_FORMAT=html in the .env