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Marty Wallace
Marty Wallace

Reputation: 35796

phpspec - mocking return value of method

In phpspec can i mock the return value of a method?

for example:

class MyClass()
{
    public function getStaffMemberNames()
    {
        // db call to get array of staff member names
    }

    public function sortStaffMemberNames()
    {
        return sort($this->getStaffMemberNames());
    }
}

I am interested in testing the sortStaffMemberNames method. But it relies on another class method which uses a db connection. I want to mock the getStaffMemberNames so i can easily test.

How can this be achieved?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1015

Answers (1)

Jakub Zalas
Jakub Zalas

Reputation: 36241

There's no partial mocks in phpspec (you cannot mock the class under test). This is a bad practice.

You should mock your collaborators instead (database connection for example).

Upvotes: 3

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