Question

I’m connecting to a third party service using SOAP. This service will return SoapFaults some times. Because this is expected, I want to test this, by mocking the SoapFaults. There are five standard SoapFaults it will return.

Here is the start of a real SoapFault:

object(SoapFault)#7 (11) {
  ["message":protected]=>
  string(19) "{ 'INVALID_INPUT' }"

I am interested in this message. In my code I use $e->getMessage().

catch (SoapFault $e)
{
    // Catch any Soap faults and convert to an error message
    switch ($e->getMessage())
    {
        case "{ 'INVALID_INPUT' }":
            $this->addError(self::INVALID_INPUT);
            return FALSE;

but I cannot figure out how to mock the SoapClient response. The SoapClient object doesn’t appear to take in any input to set the message, and the method getMessage() is final, so I can’t mock it.

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

I want to thank hakre for his comment. This is exactly what I wanted.

The SoapFault extends Exception, which expects an input of ($message, $code, $previous).
But the SoapFault expects ($faultcode, $faultstring, $faultactor, $detail, $faultname, $headerfault).
This is what threw me.

The $faultstring maps to the exception message.

So to mock it, I did:

$mock_soap->expects($this->once())
                         ->method('checkVat')
                         ->will($this->throwException(new SoapFault('a', "Error Message")));

And in my real code
$e->getMessage() now returns ‘Error Message’