Is it possible to specify explicit type for the parameter in a caller side for PHPDoc

Question

There is a method call expression:

$session->setUser($this->em->getReference(UserAccount::class, $ownerId));

where setUser is declared as

public function setUser(UserAccount $user): self

$this->em->getReference being a Doctrines's entity manager method returns object|null.

So PhpStorm marks this call as mismatching argument-parameter types.

I surely can split it into 2 statements and type it:

/** @var UserAccount $userAccount */
$userAccount = $this->em->getReference(UserAccount::class, $ownerId);
$session->setUser($userAccount);

But may be there is a way to do that inline?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure it's possible with what they call PHPStorm advanced metadata. As far as I understand you want something like this (you may need to experiment)

override(\Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface::getReference(0), map([
    '' => '@'
]))