Extending Laravel 5.1 Mess Detection the right way - oop

Question

Laravel 5.1 has only one built-in hardcoded Mess Detection, it searches to see if #package tag is the same with /namespace, like so:
preg_match('/namespace\ ' . self::REQUIRED_NAMESPACE . '\\\(.*);/isU', $content, $namespace);
preg_match('/\/*( )+#package\ (.*)[\r?\n]/isU', $content, $package);
if (!isset($namespace[1]) || empty($namespace[1])) {
continue;
}
I want to extend this to add multiple detection classes.
My folder structure currently looks like this:
Helpers >
Commands >
MessDetector >
Detector >
DetectorInterface.php
DetectorAbstract.php
PackageTagDetector.php
MessDetector.php
The file MessDetector is made as an Artisan Command, that means it extends \Illuminate\Console\Command
I have a config file called mess_detection.php which has the detection rules like so:
return [
'rules' => [
'\Helpers\Commands\MessDetector\PackageTagDetector' =>
[
'rule' => '/\/*( )+#package\ (.*)[\r?\n]/isU',
'path' => app_path(),
'info' => 'Checking for #package tag',
'error'=> 'Malformed or missing package tag'
]
]
];
But got stuck with figuring out how exactly to instantiate PackageTagDetector class in MessDetector class.
Any ideas design pattern wise?

Answer 1

Laravel has no built in mess detector.
Also checking if package tags matches the namespace is a custom convention, Laravel doesn't use package tags at all.
It seems like you are using a third party library?

Answer 2

I have made an abstract class and interfaces for every rule I needed.
Each rule had it's own class.
The rules extended the abstract and in the abstract most of the logic was used.
The rules themselves where stored in a config file, in the config file I also mentioned the class and class specific actions.