Fatal error after updating to 1.13.0 ("Cannot make static method EntityInterface::entityType() non static")

[PepeMty]

Hey there.
I just updated from 1.12.6 to 1.13.0. Everything seemed to go right. Site looks good, nothing seems broke. So I cleared caches and then ran cron only to receive this:

Fatal error: Cannot make static method EntityInterface::entityType() non static in class ParagraphsItemEntity in /home/sssssss/public_html/modules/paragraphs/ParagraphsItemEntity.inc on line 612

So cron didn't run.

Any ideas...?
Should I revert to 1.12.6...?

Warm regards from sunny México.

José

[laryn]

@PepeMty I'll take a look. What version of Paragraphs? What version of PHP?

[PepeMty]

Thanks, laryn...!
Paragraphs: 1.x-1.0.1
PHP: 7.2

[laryn]

@PepeMty FWIW, I saw something very similar on one site but unrelated to Paragraphs:
backdrop-contrib/ubercart#190

Interestingly, that site has Paragraphs installed, too, but didn't give me the error you got. Out of curiosity, can you change this line:

https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/paragraphs/blob/1.x-1.x/ParagraphsItemEntity.inc#L588

to static function... instead of public function... and see if cron runs then?

[PepeMty]

@laryn Well, well, well... It did work. I just changed the only instance of public function entityType() to static function entityType().

Now I have to remember this tiny change every time Paragraphs module is updated...

Thank you very much.

José

[laryn]

@PepeMty I will figure out what changed and make a new release of Paragraphs. It looks like this change in core may be what did it:
backdrop/backdrop@5741961

[laryn]

@PepeMty Can you test/confirm this change on your end?
997e3d6

[PepeMty]

@laryn
Sorry for the tardy reply.
Not sure what you want me to do.
Although, I made this change in my site and now it works normally.

Jose

[laryn]

@PepeMty Heads up -- the next release reverts the change that caused this breakage and this will need to be "unpatched" on your site.

backdrop/backdrop-issues#3809 (comment)

[PepeMty]

@PepeMty Heads up -- the next release reverts the change that caused this breakage and this will need to be "unpatched" on your site.

backdrop/backdrop-issues#3809 (comment)

Got it.
You did a great job nailing down this one. Thanks so much.

Warm regards from (way too) sunny México.
José

[jenlampton]

Closing this issue. The core revert will make this change unnecessary (and problematic).