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Package yii2-codeception
Short Description Patches to implement nice features of yii2-codeception since it was abandoned
License MIT
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yii2-codeception
Patches to implement nice features of yii2-codeception since it was abandoned
What / Why
We've been developing with Yii2 for a couple years now and have several projects using the
yiisoft/yii2-codeception library for unit tests.
This library has been deprecated in favor of using a
Codeception module.
Unfortunately this module requires quite a bit of refactoring to run tests in a simlar way as yii2-codeception allowed.
After a few hours of tracing and debugging we figured out that two main things had changed that we depended on and so we decided to create a standalone repo to bring in the needed features.
Loading fixtures into database
The first thing we found was that after reconfiguring Codeception to use the Yii2 module, to look like:
Running tests it was unable to load the fixtures due to foreign key constraints. We created a new base class for
our active record classes that beforeLoad and afterLoad it will disable and enable foreign key constraints
respectively.
This new base class is Sil\yii\test\ActiveFixture. To use, simply update your fixture files to extend from it instead
of the previous yii\test\ActiveFixture class.
Example fixtures class
Accessing fixtures from test case
After getting fixtures to load properly into the database we found we could not access them in the way we were used to.
With yii2-codeception, within a test function we could call $this->fixtureType('fixtureName') to access a specific
fixture record. After migrating to using Codeception\TestCase\Test as our unit test base class instead of
yii\codeception\DbTestCase we got fatal errors about the method fixtureType does not exist on the object. When
using the Yii2 Codeception module you access fixtures by calling
$this->tester->grabFixture('fixtureType', 'fixtureName'). So to work around this we created a new base class for our
tests that implements the __call() magic method to take the method name and argument and pass them to the new
$this->tester->grabFixture() method. You can use this by updating your unit tests to extend
Sil\Codeception\TestCase\Test instead of Codeception\TestCase\Test.
