`assertTrue` seems to lose inferred type

[eliashaeussler]

• phpstan/phpstan v2.1.13
• phpstan/phpstan-phpunit v2.0.6

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Given the following trait:

trait MockServerTrait
{
    private static ?MockWebServer\MockWebServer $mockServer = null;

    protected static function startMockServer(
        string $host = '127.0.0.1',
        int $port = 2083,
    ): MockWebServer\MockWebServer {
        self::$mockServer?->stop();
        self::$mockServer = new MockWebServer\MockWebServer($port, $host);
        self::$mockServer->start();

        \PHPStan\dumpType(self::$mockServer); // line 55
        self::assertTrue(self::$mockServer->isRunning());
        \PHPStan\dumpType(self::$mockServer); // line 57

        return self::$mockServer; // line 59
    }
}

When running PHPStan, I get the following errors:

------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  Line   tests/MockServerTrait.php (in context of class EliasHaeussler\CpanelRequests\Tests\MockServerAwareTestCase)                                                                                  
 ------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  55     Dumped type: donatj\MockWebServer\MockWebServer                                                                                                                                              
         ✏️  tests/MockServerTrait.php:55                                                                                                                                                             
  57     Dumped type: donatj\MockWebServer\MockWebServer|null                                                                                                                                         
         ✏️  tests/MockServerTrait.php:57                                                                                                                                                             
  59     Method EliasHaeussler\CpanelRequests\Tests\MockServerAwareTestCase::startMockServer() should return donatj\MockWebServer\MockWebServer but returns donatj\MockWebServer\MockWebServer|null.  
         🪪  return.type                                                                                                                                                                              
         ✏️  tests/MockServerTrait.php:59                                                                                                                                                             
 ------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

When I omit the last self::assertTrue, no errors are reported anymore.

[staabm]

root cause is here: phpstan/phpstan#13735

[staabm]

starting with 2.3.x static calls will no longer invalidate expressions remembered on $this - see phpstan/phpstan-src#6391

(which is only related to the initial request, but does not fix it)