Question

When I’m trying to execute a functional unittest of a module within my Yii code, I keep receiving the following error:

CException: CHttpRequest is unable to determine the request URI.

At first, I though it was because it couldn’t find the module. However, If I change the url to a wrong one, I get a correct error,s tating it couldn’t find the view.

This is how my testing code looks like

public function testViewControllerModule()
{
    ob_start();
    Yii::app()->runController('module/controller/view');
}

Any ideas on what I might be missing?

Answer 1

I think it’s because you haven’t set any server variables, i.e $_SERVER and you might be doing something like this in your controller:

Yii::app()->request ....

So before you run your test, make sure you use a fixture for the server variables also. I think this should suffice for now:

$_SERVER=array(
    'REQUEST_URI'=>'index.php', // the other fields should follow
);

However to run functional tests i would recommend using SeleniumRC, you won’t have to do these workarounds then, and can simulate user clicks also, i think.

Read the initial guide to Functional Testing , read the selenium rc phpunit guide, and also the CWebTestCase documentation.

Notes: You might still have to use fixtures for some variables, and i don’t have much experience in testing(which is bad), so i’m not very sure if i am completely correct about selenium.