setHeader not available in Responseinterface

Yes, learning the concept of interfaces is good.

What you need to know here are:
1. an interface cannot  be instantiated.  a class (not abstract class) can be instantiated.
2. if a interface is type hinted, you should use methods in the interface. so you are not wrong.

The CI4's the type hint is broken now.

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