SimpleStaticMock

Overview

A simple PHP framework for mocking static methods in unit tests (and recording those calls). This requires the runkit7/runkit7 fork of runkit (also available on PECL).

Authors

Tyson Andre, various Ifwe employees.

Requirements

• PHP version 7.0-7.3
• The runkit7/runkit7 fork of runkit must be installed and enabled. Version 2 or 3 is recommended.
• runkit must be enabled in your php.ini settings (extension=runkit.so)

License

The SimpleStaticMock framework is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

Installation

TODO: publish this on packagist and add a release version.

Alternately, this project can be checked out to a directory and required manually.

require_once $simpleStaticMockDir . '/src/SimpleStaticMock/MockUtils.php';
require_once $simpleStaticMockDir . '/src/SimpleStaticMock/MockFunction.php';
require_once $simpleStaticMockDir . '/src/SimpleStaticMock/SimpleStaticMock.php';

How this works:

• If a value is passed in, we serialize and unserialize that value to add it to the source of a function created with runkit\_method\_add
• The function source is fetched from disk if a closure is passed in, using reflection to get the source of that closure using the file and start/end lines of the function. TODO: try out the runkit APIs for closures.

Usage:

use \SimpleStaticMock\SimpleStaticMock;

class TestCase extends PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase {

    public function myTest() {
        $this->_mock = new SimpleStaticMock('my_class', 'my_method', 42);
		$value = my_class::my_method('arg');  // real tests would call something else, which calls my_class::my_method()
        $this->assertSame(42, $value, 'SimpleStaticMock should mock this method');
        $this->assertSame([[42]], $this->_mock->argumentsCalledWith(), 'SimpleStaticMock should record calls to this method');
        $this->_mock->unmock();  // to unmock an individual mock
        // SimpleStaticMock::unmock_all();  // to unmock all mocks, e.g. in tearDown()
    }

    public function tearDown() {
        parent::tearDown();
        SimpleStaticMock::unmock_all();  // unmock all mocks created
    }

Alternately, a Closure can be used for user-defined logic to mock values.

    public function myTest() {
		$tmp = 7;  // must be serializable with var_export
		$this->_mock = new SimpleStaticMock('my_class', 'my_method', function($arg) use($tmp) {
			return $tmp * 6;
		});
		$value = my_class::my_method('arg');  // real tests would call something else, which calls my_class::my_method()
		$this->assertSame(42, $value, 'SimpleStaticMock should mock this method');
	}

See src/SimpleStaticMock/SimpleStaticMock.php for all of the available methods.

Examples:

See tests/SimpleStaticMockTest.php for more examples

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