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Builder::build() silently skips configured file-based discovery when symfony/finder is missing — should fail loudly #398

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@laticrete-pimcore

Calling setDiscovery() is an explicit declaration that the server's tools come from attribute discovery. But since symfony/finder is only a suggested dependency, a host application can easily end up without it — and when that happens, build() does this:

if (null !== $this->discoveryBasePath) {
    if (null !== $this->discoverer || class_exists(Finder::class)) {
        // ... discovery runs
    } else {
        $logger->warning('File-based discovery requires symfony/finder...');
    }
}

The result is the worst failure mode available: the server builds successfully, initialize succeeds, and tools/list returns an empty array. The operator sees a healthy server; the symptom surfaces far from the cause, as confused MCP clients with no tools. The only breadcrumb is a single warning log line.

This also contradicts the SDK's own Discoverer::__construct(), which already throws RuntimeException('File-based discovery requires symfony/finder. ...') for exactly this situation — the builder's class_exists pre-check just routes around that guard, downgrading a configured-but-impossible feature from an error to a whisper.

Proposal: when discoveryBasePath is set, no custom discoverer was supplied, and Finder is unavailable, build() should throw (the Discoverer's existing message is perfect) instead of warning-and-skipping. This costs nothing for explicit-registration users, client-only users, or anyone without setDiscovery() — it only converts a silent production mystery into an immediate, actionable boot error for people who asked for discovery and can't have it.

Observed on v0.7.0. Context: we hit this failure mode while integrating the SDK into a Symfony bundle (pimcore/data-hub-simple-rest#312) and worked around it by requiring symfony/finder in the bundle directly — which remains the right consumer-side fix, but doesn't help the next integrator who doesn't know about the silent path.

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