[Bug]: ->with([A::class, B::class]) is called as a [class, method] callable instead of iterated, dropping the test

What Happened

A dataset written as an unkeyed pair of class-name strings is invoked as a callable instead of iterated as two rows. PHP reads a two-element array whose first element names a class as a [class, method] callable, and is_callable() accepts any method name on a class that defines __callStatic. DatasetsRepository::processDatasets() uses is_callable(), so it calls the dataset:

https://github.com/pestphp/pest/blob/main/src/Repositories/DatasetsRepository.php

if (is_string($data)) {
    $datasets[$index] = self::getScopedDataset($data, $currentTestFile);
}

if (is_callable($datasets[$index])) {          // <-- true for [SomeClass::class, 'anything']
    $datasets[$index] = call_user_func($datasets[$index]);
}

Whatever __callStatic does then decides the outcome. The data provider ends up invalid and every test behind the dataset is dropped from the run.

Expected: two tests, ('DatasetRepoAlpha') and ('DatasetRepoBeta').

The shape is narrow, which is what makes it easy to write and easy to miss in review:

• exactly two elements — three or more is not a callable shape and works correctly;
• unkeyed — ['a' => A::class, 'b' => B::class] works correctly;
• first element naming a real class that can answer the second (__callStatic means any name qualifies).

This bites hardest in Laravel, where every Eloquent model has __callStatic. ->with([UserA::class, UserB::class]) forwards to a query builder, and because data providers run at suite-build time before the framework has booted, it dies with Call to a member function connection() on null — an error that points nowhere near the dataset.

How to Reproduce

Self-contained, no framework needed. DatasetRepoAlpha::__callStatic should never run, and does:

<?php

class DatasetRepoAlpha
{
    public static function __callStatic(string $name, array $arguments): never
    {
        throw new RuntimeException("__callStatic({$name}) should never have been reached");
    }
}

class DatasetRepoBeta {}

test('a plain test, so the run is not empty', function () {
    expect(true)->toBeTrue();
});

test('two rows', function (string $class) {
    expect(class_exists($class))->toBeTrue();
})->with([DatasetRepoAlpha::class, DatasetRepoBeta::class]);

   FAIL  Tests\Feature\TmpUpstreamReproTest
  ✓ a plain test, so the run is not empty                                5.60s
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   FAILED  Tests\Feature\TmpUpstreamReproTest >
  The data provider P\Tests\Feature\TmpUpstreamReproTest::__pest_evaluable_two_rows_dataset specified for P\Tests\Feature\TmpUpstreamReproTest::__pest_evaluable_two_rows is invalid
__callStatic(DatasetRepoBeta) should never have been reached

  Tests:    1 failed, 1 passed (1 assertions)

Removing the plain test, so the dataset test is the only one in the run, reports this instead — exit code is still 2, but nothing says why:

   INFO  No tests found.

Any of these three variants of the same dataset behaves correctly, which is how the bug hides:

->with([A::class, B::class, C::class]);           // three rows: not a callable shape
->with(['a' => A::class, 'b' => B::class]);       // keyed
->with([[A::class], [B::class]]);                 // rows wrapped

Sample Repository

Not needed — the snippet above is self-contained.

Pest Version

4.7.2 (PHPUnit 12.5.28)

PHP Version

8.5.10

Operation System

Linux

Notes

Pest\PendingCalls\TestCall::with() is typed Closure|iterable|string ...$data, so the only callable it can legitimately be handed is a Closure. Narrowing the check to match the signature rejects the array shape without affecting closure or named-dataset datasets:

-        if (is_callable($datasets[$index])) {
-            $datasets[$index] = call_user_func($datasets[$index]);
+        if ($datasets[$index] instanceof Closure) {
+            $datasets[$index] = ($datasets[$index])();
         }

is_string() on the preceding line already covers named datasets (and getScopedDataset() can return a Closure, which the narrowed check still calls), and Traversable is handled just below — so nothing else there depends on is_callable(). The one behaviour that would change is passing an invokable object as a dataset; I could not find that documented, but worth confirming.

Happy to send a PR for this if the approach looks right.

Related: #767 covered the general "dataset errors are quietly suppressed" symptom, and that is genuinely fixed — the invalid provider is reported now, as above. The residue is the empty-run case, where No tests found replaces the explanation.

Start in src/Repositories/DatasetsRepository.php at DatasetsRepository::processDatasets(), then run the self-contained reproduction from the issue. Confirm that the two unkeyed class names produce two dataset rows without invoking DatasetRepoAlpha::__callStatic, while closures and named datasets still work.