Question

When I programmed in ASP.NET MVC, there was a neat pattern called Repository. I want to implment it in Codeigniter but I do not know how. Here is what I actually want:

$mock_repository = new MockRepository();
$mock_repository->add(new Item(‘title1′, ‘description1′, 1));
$mock_repository->add(new Item(‘title2′, ‘description2′, 2));
$mock_repository->add(new Item(‘title3′, ‘description3′, 1));
$controller = new Item_controller($mock_repository);
$items = $controller->get_items_by_user_id(1);
$this->_assert_equals(count($items), 2);

I am using TOAST for Unit Testing. So how do I instantiate a controller within a test? The test is of course, another controller itself.

Answer 1

It can be done with HMVC.

$result = Modules::run('controller/get_items_by_user_id', $params);

$this->_assert_equals($result, $expected);