Question

I’m working on my first ZF project and am a bit stuck. I have a controller named ‘WebServiceController’ and I have a unit test for the WebServiceController but when I run the test it doesn’t assert the controller properly. My test code is:

public function testIndexAction() {
        $params = array('action' => 'index', 'controller' => 'WebService', 'module' => 'default');
        $url = $this->url($this->urlizeOptions($params));
        $this->dispatch($url);

        // assertions
        $this->assertModule($params['module']);
        $this->assertController($params['controller']);
        $this->assertAction($params['action']);
        $this->assertQueryContentContains(
            'div#view-content p',
            'View script for controller <b>' . $params['controller'] . '</b> and script/action name <b>' . $params['action'] . '</b>'
            );
    }

The error I get is:

1) WebServiceControllerTest::testIndexAction
Failed asserting last controller used <“Web-Service”> was “WebService”

It looks like its trying to assert the controller was ‘Web-Service’ instead of ‘WebService’. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

Ziad

p.s. I am using ZF 1.11.5

Answer 1

In Zend Framework a camel case name for controller is rewritten in the URL :

WebService in the class name becomes web-service in the URL.

This is a normal behavior, see http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/zend.controller.basics.html :

Since humans are notoriously
inconsistent at maintaining case
sensitivity when typing links, Zend
Framework actually normalizes path
information to lowercase. This, of
course, will affect how you name your
controller and actions… or refer to
them in links. If you wish to have
your controller class or action method
name have multiple MixedCasedWords or
camelCasedWords, you will need to
separate those words on the url with
either a ‘-‘ or ‘.’ (though you can
configure the character used). As an
example, if you were going to the
action in
FooBarController::bazBatAction(),
you’d refer to it on the url as
/foo-bar/baz-bat or /foo.bar/baz.bat.