[FP] Declaration access can be weaker for overridden methods in final classes

[jdreesen]

Subject	Details
Plugin	Php Inspections EA Ultimate, 2024.1.1
Language level	8.1

Current behaviour

The “Declaration access can be weaker” inspection reports that the setUp() method in a test extending PHPUnit's PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase can be made private instead of protected, because the class is final:

Expected behaviour

The suggestion isn't shown because decreasing the visibility of an overriden method is not allowed in PHP, see: https://3v4l.org/PF8l6

Environment details

PhpStorm 2024.2.3
Build #PS-242.23339.16, built on September 25, 2024
Runtime version: 21.0.4+13-b509.17 amd64 (JCEF 122.1.9)
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Toolkit: sun.awt.X11.XToolkit
Linux 5.4.0-196-generic
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Concurrent GC, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 6144M
Cores: 8
Current Desktop: ubuntu:GNOME

[jdreesen]

Note: there was already a similar bug a few years ago: #1384