Re: [Simpletest-support] "Mocking" internally called functions/classes

[Chris C. <ch...@w3...>]

Hi,

It's not possible to override PHP's internal functions (or any global 
functions) except perhaps with the help of RunKit.

In terms of providing a mock version of Class_C, I'd suggest using a 
little dependency lookup as a the path of least resistance if you need 
to retrofit this without too much modification.  A registry would be the 
simplest way to achieve this.

Cheers,

Chris


Kyohere Luke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here's the scenario:
>
> I'm trying to test Class_A::Method_B(..). Method_B internally calls
> Class_C::Method_D() - which takes a long time, and is accessed from the
> global/autoload mechanism of the application. I'd like to skip this call,
> since it's irrelevant to my tests.
>
> Aside from re-designing my class/method to read in Class_C as one of it's
> arguments, or else creating a dummy Class_C, and loading it before the real
> one is loaded, is there a way to achieve this with Mocks?
>
> Secondly, is there a way to prevent the class I'm trying to test from
> calling such mundane php functions like file_exists(), etc? Because in such
> a case, I have to design my test to create/delete files from the file system
> and so on.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Luke
>
>