* the HTMLForm
* @param WebRequest|null $request Optionally try and get data from a request too
* @return array [ User|string|null, Block::TYPE_ constant|null ]
+ * @phan-return array{0:User|string|null,1:int|null}
*/
public static function getTargetAndType( $par, WebRequest $request = null ) {
$i = 0;