♻️ extract move generator by garak · Pull Request #99 · p-chess/chess

garak · 2026-11-10T07:18:42Z

Part 7 of #91

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Documentation
- The Chess documentation index now links to the MoveGenerator documentation.
Move Generation
- Move generation continues to use the current position and supports generating moves for a selected square, with or without legality checks. No change to the user-visible behavior is specified.

coderabbitai · 2026-11-10T07:18:58Z

Walkthrough

Chess now delegates move generation to MoveGenerator, initialized with the existing make and undo callbacks. The documentation index adds a link to MoveGenerator.

Changes: Move generation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Delegate move generation `src/Chess.php`, `docs/index.md`	`Chess` stores and initializes a `MoveGenerator`, removes its move-generation cache and private `addMove` helper, and passes the position, board hash, optional square, and legality flag to `MoveGenerator::generate`. The documentation index links to `MoveGenerator`.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Refactor

Possibly related issues

Issue 91 requests extracting generateMoves() and addMove() into MoveGenerator. This PR moves move-generation delegation to that component.

Possibly related PRs

p-chess/chess#96: Introduces Position, which this PR passes to MoveGenerator::generate().
p-chess/chess#98: Uses Chess::generateMoves() in SanEncoder; this PR changes the implementation behind that method.

Merge Risk: Critical · up to 93410

This change makes Chess depend on a MoveGenerator class that is not included in the package. Creating any Chess instance now throws a class-not-found error, so every game workflow is broken, and the test suite fails across the PHP matrix. The documentation index also links to a page that does not exist. Add the missing class, carrying over the previous move cache and promotion handling, before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: extracting move generation into a MoveGenerator.

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Review comments at @docs/index.md:
- Line 9: Fix the MoveGenerator entry in the documentation index so it no longer
points to a missing page: add the referenced documentation page or remove the
entry until that page is available.

Review comments at @src/Chess.php:
- Line 33: Define an autoloadable `PChess\Chess\MoveGenerator` for the
instantiation in `Chess` that accepts the `makeMove` and `undoMove` callbacks
and provides `generate` with the required position, board hash, optional square,
and legality inputs, returning an array. Preserve the move-cache and
promotion-expansion behavior formerly handled by `Chess`, and ensure the class’s
namespace and location match the project’s PSR-4 configuration.

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Update the title to describe the move-generation change, for example: “Extract
move generation into MoveGenerator.”

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage
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coderabbitai · 2026-11-10T07:23:19Z

 * [Move](move.md)
 * [Fen](fen.md)
 * [SanEncoder](san_encoder.md)
+* [MoveGenerator](move_generator.md)


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Script executed:

#!/bin/bash fd -i 'move_generator.md' docs ls docs

Repository: p-chess/chess

Length of output: 278

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#!/bin/bash git diff 730db1f9a505aa6fb1296532cdf74798f65d4012 93410c651a899a15ae623cdfc4bec6eda6115fc1 -- docs/index.md docs/move_generator.md printf '\n--- Index and resource script ---\n' nl -ba docs/index.md nl -ba docs/get-resources.sh printf '\n--- Documentation build references ---\n' rg -n -i -e 'move_generator\.md' -e 'docs/index\.md' -e 'mkdocs|mdbook|sphinx|documentation' --glob '!*.lock' --glob '!docs/index.md' . || test "$?" -eq 1 printf '\n--- Documentation files ---\n' find docs -maxdepth 2 -type f -print | sort

Repository: p-chess/chess

Length of output: 3482

Fix the MoveGenerator documentation link.

The link points to a missing page. Add docs/move_generator.md, or remove the entry until the page is available.

Remove the broken link

--- "a/docs/index.md" +++ "b/docs/index.md" @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ * [Move](move.md) * [Fen](fen.md) * [SanEncoder](san_encoder.md) -* [MoveGenerator](move_generator.md) * [History](history.md) * [HtmlOutput](output_html.md) * [ImagineOutput](output_imagine.md)

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Review the replacement and indentation, then test before committing.

Suggested change

* [MoveGenerator](move_generator.md)

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coderabbitai · 2026-11-10T07:23:19Z

        $this->board = $this->position->board;
        $this->refreshBoardHash();
        $this->history = $history ?? new History();
+        $this->moveGenerator = new MoveGenerator($this->makeMove(...), $this->undoMove(...));


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Add the missing MoveGenerator class. The constructor fails at runtime without it.

Line 33 instantiates MoveGenerator. The class is in the same namespace as Chess, so no use statement is needed. The pipeline reports that PChess\Chess\MoveGenerator is not found. This class-not-found Error occurs in every new Chess(...) call, so 86 tests error on all PHP versions in the matrix. MoveTest::testBuildMoveWithInvalidFrom also fails: it receives this Error instead of the expected InvalidArgumentException.

The class definition is probably missing from the commit, for example an untracked src/MoveGenerator.php. Add the file to the PR. The class must provide:

A constructor that accepts the makeMove and undoMove callbacks.

A generate(Position $position, string $boardHash, ?int $square, bool $legal): array method. This method must carry over the removed move cache and promotion-expansion logic from Chess.

If the class exists but is not autoloadable, check its file path, namespace and class name against the PSR-4 mapping in composer.json.

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GitHub Actions: run-tests / 0_php-8.4.txt

[error] 33-33: The vendor/bin/phpunit --color=always step failed (exit code 2): 86 tests error because class PChess\Chess\MoveGenerator is not found. One additional test, MoveTest::testBuildMoveWithInvalidFrom, failed because it received this Error instead of the expected InvalidArgumentException.

GitHub Actions: run-tests / 1_php-8.5.txt

[error] 33-33: The PHPUnit step vendor/bin/phpunit --color=always failed: PChess\Chess\MoveGenerator was not found, causing 86 test errors. The same missing class also caused MoveTest::testBuildMoveWithInvalidFrom to throw an Error instead of the expected InvalidArgumentException (1 failure).

GitHub Actions: run-tests / 2_php-8.3.txt

[error] 33-33: PHPUnit command 'vendor/bin/phpunit --color=always' failed: 86 tests error because class 'PChess\Chess\MoveGenerator' was not found. One additional test failed because it expected InvalidArgumentException but encountered this class-loading Error instead.

GitHub Actions: run-tests / 3_php-8.2.txt

[error] 33-33: The vendor/bin/phpunit --color=always test step failed: 86 tests errored because class PChess\Chess\MoveGenerator was not found. An additional assertion failure in MoveTest::testBuildMoveWithInvalidFrom resulted from the same missing class instead of the expected InvalidArgumentException. PHPUnit reported 86 errors and 1 failure.

GitHub Actions: run-tests / php-8.2

[error] 33-33: PHPUnit command 'vendor/bin/phpunit --color=always' failed (exit code 2). 86 tests errored because class 'PChess\Chess\MoveGenerator' was not found. One additional test failed because it expected InvalidArgumentException but encountered this class-not-found Error.

GitHub Actions: run-tests / php-8.3

[error] 33-33: PHPUnit command 'vendor/bin/phpunit --color=always' failed (exit code 2): 86 tests errored because class 'PChess\Chess\MoveGenerator' was not found. One additional test expected InvalidArgumentException but received this class-not-found Error.

GitHub Actions: run-tests / php-8.4

[error] 33-33: The vendor/bin/phpunit --color=always test step failed (exit code 2). PChess\Chess\MoveGenerator was not found, causing 86 test errors and one failure where InvalidArgumentException was expected.

GitHub Actions: run-tests / php-8.5

[error] 33-33: vendor/bin/phpunit --color=always failed: 86 tests errored because class "PChess\Chess\MoveGenerator" was not found.

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What changed in this PR

Continues the Chess decomposition in #91 by extracting move generation and caching into a dedicated MoveGenerator, while retaining the existing Chess interface.

Changes:

Moves pseudo-legal generation and legality filtering into MoveGenerator, with injected make/undo callbacks.
Adds tests for move generation, legality filtering, position restoration, and cache reuse.
Documents the new component and links it from the documentation index.

File	Description
`tests/MoveGeneratorTest.php`	Adds focused generation, filtering, and caching tests.
`src/MoveGenerator.php`	Implements the extracted move generator and cache.
`src/Chess.php`	Delegates move generation to the new component.
`docs/move_generator.md`	Documents callbacks, generation options, and caching.
`docs/index.md`	Links to the MoveGenerator documentation.

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