8.0.0: PHP 8 attribute grid config, Symfony 7/8 support, and legacy cleanup

[mmucklo]

Summary

Releases 8.0.0. Headline feature: entities can be configured with PHP 8 native attributes instead of (or alongside) Doctrine annotations. The release also modernizes the supported platform range, removes long-deprecated subsystems, and rebuilds CI.

#[Grid]
#[ShowAction]
#[Sort(column: 'name', direction: 'ASC')]
class Product
{
    #[Column(label: 'Product Name', sortable: true, searchable: true)]
    private $name;

    #[Column(label: 'Price')]
    private $price;
}

What's in it

Grid configuration

• #[Grid] / #[Column] native attributes, with #[ShowAction] / #[DeleteAction] / #[Action] / #[Sort] as class-level attributes. On PHP 8.1+ actions and sort can also be nested directly in #[Grid(...)].
• Annotations remain fully supported. Configuration is merged per property and per marker, so a partially migrated class (some #[Column], some @Column; an @Grid with class-level #[Sort]/#[ShowAction]) keeps all of its columns, actions, and sort.
• Annotation/attribute classes use natural constructors via Doctrine's @NamedArgumentConstructor; misconfigured values (unknown keys, wrong types, an invalid sort direction) are rejected with a clear error instead of being silently ignored.
• The resolver is organized behind a GridConfigSourceInterface strategy (attribute + annotation sources), and the on-disk column cache is now a plain var_export'd spec materialized by a single factory (no generated PHP source).

Platform

• Drop PHP 5.6/7.0/7.1; minimum is now PHP 7.2, tested through 8.4.
• Add Symfony 7 and 8 support (^3.4 || ^4.4 || ^5.4 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0).
• Remove the abandoned sensio/framework-extra-bundle dependency.

Removals / cleanup

• Remove the deprecated-since-3.0.0 dtc:grid:source:generate / dtc:grid:source:list commands, the Dtc\GridBundle\Generator classes, the skeleton templates, and the orphaned ColumnExtractionTrait.

CI

• Replace Travis with GitHub Actions: PHP 7.2–8.4 matrix (incl. lowest-deps), PHPStan + PHP CS Fixer lint, and an end-to-end Puppeteer screenshot job that posts the rendered grids to this PR.

⚠️ BC breaks (major release)

• Annotation classes now use @NamedArgumentConstructor: construct them with real parameters (new Column('Name')), not a values array (new Column(['label' => ...])). Misconfigured values (unknown keys, wrong types) now throw instead of being silently ignored.
• DataTables default integration assets switched from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 4 — override dtc_grid.datatables.css/js if you depend on the old assets.
• Removed: the dtc:grid:source:* commands and their service IDs, ColumnExtractionTrait, and ColumnSource::setDebug()/setCacheDir().
• The annotation (non-attribute) path requires the consumer app to provide doctrine/annotations; the native attribute path needs no extra package.

See CHANGELOG.md for the full itemized list.

Test plan

• Test suite green on PHP 7.2 (incl. --prefer-lowest) through 8.4
• PHPStan (level 1, baseline) and PHP CS Fixer clean
• Coverage for the attribute path, annotation path, per-property/partial-migration merge, cache provenance/staleness, argument validation, and the columnless-grid error
• Screenshot job renders the table and DataTables grids green in CI

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