John Davidson

Message:

Hey so I have the below method and when trying to mock the Manager::getConfiguration call, I cannot get it to work. I have tried using a namedMock as well as the unit test decorators to have it run in another thread. It either gives me a class already exists error or actually pulls the manager configuration which I do not want.

public function getBaseTypeManagerConfig() {

        $baseTypeManagerConfig = array();



        if (!empty($this->dataConfig)

                && !empty($baseType = $this->dataConfig->getBaseType())) {

            $baseTypeManagerConfig = Manager::getConfiguration($baseType);

        }



        return $baseTypeManagerConfig;

}



/**

 * @runTestsInSeparateProcesses

 * @preserveGlobalState disabled

 */

public function testBaseTypeManagerConfig() {

         $managerMock = Mockery::namedMock('Manager', 'ManagerStub');

         $managerMock->shouldReceive('getConfiguration')->andReturn(self::MOCKED_MANAGER_DECODED_JSON);



         $listModule = Mockery::mock('GenericListModule')->makePartial();

         $listModule->shouldReceive([

                 'getBaseType' => 'events',

         ]);



         $config = \SWL\Lib\Generic\ConfigFactory::getConfig('Events_Event');

         $listModule->shouldReceive('setDataConfig')->andSet('dataConfig', $config);



         $baseTypeManagerConfig = $listModule->getBaseTypeManagerConfig();

         $this->assertEquals(array(), $baseTypeManagerConfig);

}



// Attempt at using named mock to replace 'Manager' class with mock

class ManagerStub {

    public static function getConfiguration($configType) {

        return array();

    }

}

Any thoughts on why I can't use this named mock to replace the Manager call? New to unit testing and phpunit/mockery so any other pointers welcome. Thank you! :)

---

My Answer:
>manager)) {
$managerConfig = Manager::getConfiguration();
$baseTypeManagerConfig = $managerConfig['base_types'];
}

return $baseTypeManagerConfig;
}

To mock the static method `Manager::getConfiguration()` in your unit test, you can use Mockery to create a mock object for the `Manager` class and then mock the `getConfiguration()` method on that mock object.

Here's an example of how you can do this in your unit test:

php
use Mockery\Adapter\Phpunit\MockeryTestCase;

class YourTestClass extends MockeryTestCase
{
public function testGetBaseTypeManagerConfig()
{
$managerMock = Mockery::mock('overload:Manager');
$managerMock->shouldReceive('getConfiguration')->andReturn(['base_types' => ['mocked_base_type']]);

$yourObject = new YourClass();
$result = $yourObject->getBaseTypeManagerConfig();

$this->assertEquals(['mocked_base_type'], $result);
}
}


In this example, we create a mock object for the `Manager` class using `Mockery::mock('overload:Manager')`. We then use the `shouldReceive()` method to mock the `getConfiguration()` method on the mock object and specify the return value that we want.

By using this approach, you should be able to mock the static method `Manager::getConfiguration()` in your unit test without actually calling the real method.