Session problem

[yamatadev]

Hello, im new to ci_phpunit, im new to tests in general but i got a question, ive been cracking my head to make it work, i work a project that runs HMVC, codeigniter3.0 and phpunit 7.4, im having problem running tests because the test doesnt seem to find the library Session on time, it does find it, but only after the tests is already done, i tried var_dump($class) on common.php and thats the result >>

vendor/bin/phpunit -c application/tests application/tests/controllers/Educ_boletimescolarTest.php
/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(9) "Benchmark"
/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(5) "Hooks"
/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(6) "Config"
/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(3) "Log"
/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(4) "Utf8"
/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(3) "URI"
/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(6) "Router"
/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(6) "Output"
/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(8) "Security"
/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(5) "Input"
/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(4) "Lang"
/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(6) "Loader"
PHPUnit 9.5.28 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

E 1 / 1 (100%)/var/www/siseduc_saquarema/application/tests/_ci_phpunit_test/replacing/core/Common.php:92:
string(7) "Session"

Time: 00:06.048, Memory: 60.00 MB

There was 1 error:

1. Educ_boletimescolarTest::testInstance
   CIPHPUnitTestExitException: Unable to locate the specified class: Session.php

The Session is only found after the PHPUnit already run, i tried a lot of things, like setUp method, _construct, require_once Session, session_start and etc..., do you guys have anything that could possibly help?

[kenjis]

Can you show the minimum sample code to reproduce the issue?

[yamatadev]

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
// require_once ('../../system/libraries/Session/Session.php');

final class Educ_boletimescolarTest extends TestCase
{
    protected function setUp(): void
    {
        session_start();
        
    }
    
    public function testInstance():void 
    {
    //   $this->setUp();
      $obj = new Educ_boletimescolar();
      $this->assertInstanceOf('Educ_boletimescolar', $obj);
    }
}

this is the test code, the Controller one is a bit long so ill just give u the beggining ok?

<?php

if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Educ_boletimescolar extends MY_Controller
{

    public function index()
    {
        $permissao = $this->m_login->permissao('Educ_boletimescolar', $this->session->userdata('userperfil'));

        if ($permissao->num_rows() == 0) {
            redirect('Home');
        }

        // ...

[kenjis]

It is better you know what git and GitHub are.

[kenjis]

1. session_start() does not work because PHPUnit runs on CLI. Session does not work on CLI.
2. Probably you can't write controller test like $obj = new Educ_boletimescolar();.

If you want to write tests for controllers,
see https://github.com/kenjis/ci-app-for-ci-phpunit-test/tree/3.x/application/tests/controllers

[kenjis]

I recommend you read the docs: https://github.com/kenjis/ci-phpunit-test/blob/3.x/docs/HowToWriteTests.md

[yamatadev]

those are awesome, thanks for the help, so the problem was me all the way haha, anyways if i follow those, i shouldnt have any problems with Session right?

[kenjis]

I don't know exactly where the Session error comes from.
I recommend you write a simple controller test like:
https://github.com/kenjis/ci-phpunit-test/blob/3.x/docs/HowToWriteTests.md#request-to-controller
and see the errror will happen again.

[yamatadev]

i tried some tests, doesnt seem to happen anymore, it helped me a lot, ill study the documentation, thanks for the assistance