Question

So I have this builder that runs a buildClass method which should be public, and it takes a couple of arguments.

In my test I want to remove those arguments completely and add something completely different using the Mock in PHPUnit.

So: from:

class ClassBuilder{
  public function buildClass($id, $some, $vars){
    $class = new Class($id, $some, $vars);
    return self::getClass(db_Class, $class);
  }
}

So you might get my idea here, I want to make a mock so it does the return function there.

$myClassStub->getMock("ClassBuilder");
$myClassStub->->expects($this->any())
    ->method("buildClass")
    ->with($this->anything(), $this->anything())
    ->will($this->returnCallback("getClass"));

But I have no idea how it works. This is how I thought it would be, but I have no clue where to put the arguments at all. Please help me out here, much appriciated.

/Marcus

Answer 1

You can just leave out the ->with($this->anything(), $this->anything()) exepct if it is there to make sure that you pass at least 2 arguments into that function.

Apart from you that I’ve understood is that you want to return a different class. In that case I’d suggest doing:

$yourClassToReturn = "..."; // create the class here

$myClassStub->getMock("ClassBuilder");
$myClassStub->expects($this->any())
    ->method("buildClass")
    ->with($this->anything(), $this->anything())
    ->will($this->returnValue($yourClassToReturn));