Question

Say we have the following array, $myArray, to check as per var_export:

array (
  0 => AnObject::__set_state(array(
           'id' => 10,
           'name' => 'foo'
  )),
  1 => AnObject::__set_state(array(
           'id' => 23,
           'name' => 'bar'
  )),
  2 => AnObject::__set_state(array(
           'id' => 55,
           'name' => 'baz'
  )),
)

The assertion should pass if this array contains an AnObject which has a name of 'bar'.

I know that if I knew the position of the AnObject value, I could use:

$this->assertAttributeSame('bar', 'name', $myArray[1]);

Is there some way to use $this->assertThat(), or another type of contains to check the entire array and return true of one of the objects has the attribute that matches?

Answer 1

There is no such built-in assertion and I cannot think of any possibility to combine them to get the expected result.

What I recommend you – is to create a helper method that accepts an array and does the necessary check in a loop.

Other solution is to create completely new assertion just for this case, but I think it is an overkill for this task 😉