README

Do you miss the old "withConsecutive" method in PHPUnit? This library solves that problem for you.

Installation

Via Composer (https://packagist.org/packages/eboreum/phpunit-with-consecutive-alternative):

composer require --dev eboreum/phpunit-with-consecutive-alternative

Via GitLab:

git clone git@gitlab.com:eboreum/phpunit-with-consecutive-alternative.git

Using this library

Within a test method — i.e. a method inside a child of \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase — simply do the following:

use Eboreum\PhpunitWithConsecutiveAlternative\MethodCallExpectation;
use Eboreum\PhpunitWithConsecutiveAlternative\WillHandleConsecutiveCalls;

...

$object = $this->createMock(DateTime::class);

$willHandleConsecutiveCalls = new WillHandleConsecutiveCalls();
$willHandleConsecutiveCalls->expectConsecutiveCalls(
    $object,
    'setISODate',
    new MethodCallExpectation($object, 1999, 42),
    new MethodCallExpectation($object, 2000, 43, 2),
);

...


$this->assertSame($object, $object->setISODate(1999, 42));
$this->assertSame($object, $object->setISODate(2000, 43, 2));

Make it easy for yourself

Make your own (abstract) test case class and simply add a proxy method doing the above.

Example:

use Eboreum\PhpunitWithConsecutiveAlternative\MethodCallExpectation;
use Eboreum\PhpunitWithConsecutiveAlternative\WillHandleConsecutiveCalls;
use PHPUnit\Framework\MockObject\MockObject;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

abstract class AbstractUnitTestCase extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * @param non-empty-string $methodName
     */
    final public static function expectConsecutiveCalls(
        MockObject $object,
        string $methodName,
        MethodCallExpectation ...$methodCallExpectations,
    ): void {
        (new WillHandleConsecutiveCalls())->expectConsecutiveCalls($object, $methodName, ...$methodCallExpectations);
    }
}

⚠️ Notice: We do not hook into \PHPUnit\Framework\MockObject\Builder\InvocationMocker and so — contrary to the original withConsecutive — we place the above method on \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase instead.

• In simpler terms: You call a method on \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase, with the mock as an argument, rather than calling a method on the mock itself.
• This change is largely because PHPUnit utilizes the "final" keyword a lot on classes and does not support decorators, making extending (an instance of) InvocationMocker nigh-impossible (unless we do evil class-override things).

Why was "withConsecutive" removed?

You can see some of the reasoning and discussion about it here: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/4026

The main reason @sebastianbergmann decided to remove withConsecutive (and at, by the way) was with the argument: Don't mock what you don't own. Sadly, the resource he links to in https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/4026 — being https://thephp.cc/news/2021/04/do-not-mock-what-you-do-not-own — is now a 404 page. Sebastian is a fantastic person and I and many others greatly appreciate his work over the years. Truly! However, I for one disagree with the "Don't mock what you don't own" sentiment. If something is part of the public API — third-part or not — one should be able to and allowed to mock it. Period.

No convenient alternative has been provided in PHPUnit itself.

A core problem — fixed

A core problem was the disjointed connection between arguments and their corresponding return values, as they would be provided in separate methods, i.e.:

• withConsecutive
• willReturnOnConsecutiveCalls or willReturn

In order to make this connection abundantly clear, the value-object class \Eboreum\PhpunitWithConsecutiveAlternative\MethodCallExpectation has been implemented. Within it is stored a return value (required) and 0 or more arguments.

Notice: You may indeed use callbacks (i.e. \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase->callback(...)) for the arguments instead of the actual values.

License & Disclaimer

See LICENSE file. Basically: Use this library at your own risk.

Contributing

We prefer that you create an issue and or a merge request at https://gitlab.com/eboreum/phpunit-with-consecutive-alternative, and have a discussion about a feature or bug here.

Branch rules

main = 2.x (not a tag): PHP ^8.5.

Previous branches:

• 1.x: PHP ^8.2.

Credits

Authors

• Kasper Søfren (kafoso)
  E-mail: soefritz@gmail.com
  Homepage: https://gitlab.com/kafoso