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PHPUnit Polyfills

Set of polyfills for changed PHPUnit functionality to allow for creating PHPUnit cross-version compatible tests.

• Requirements
• Installation
  • Autoloading
• Why use the PHPUnit Polyfills?
  • PHPUnit support
• Using this library
  • Supported ways of calling the assertions
• Features
  • Polyfill traits
  • TestCases
  • TestListener
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Contributing
• License

Requirements

• PHP 7.1 or higher.
• PHPUnit 7.5 - 9.x, 11.x and 12.x (automatically required via Composer).

Installation

To install this package, run:

To update this package, run:

Autoloading

Make sure to:

• Either use the Composer vendor/autoload.php file as your test bootstrap file;
• Or require the vendor/yoast/phpunit-polyfills/phpunitpolyfills-autoload.php file in your test bootstrap.

Why use the PHPUnit Polyfills?

This library is set up to allow for creating PHPUnit cross-version compatible tests by offering a number of polyfills for functionality which was introduced, split up or renamed in PHPUnit.

Write your tests for PHPUnit 12.x and run them on PHPUnit 7.5 - 12.x

The polyfills have been setup to allow tests to be forward-compatible. What that means is, that your tests can use the assertions supported by the latest PHPUnit version, even when running on older PHPUnit versions.

This puts the burden of upgrading to use the syntax of newer PHPUnit versions at the point when you want to start running your tests on a newer version. By doing so, dropping support for an older PHPUnit version becomes as straight-forward as removing it from the version constraint in your composer.json file.

PHPUnit support

• Releases in the 1.x series of the PHPUnit Polyfills support PHPUnit 4.8 - 9.x.
• Releases in the 2.x series of the PHPUnit Polyfills support PHPUnit 5.7 - 10.x.
• Releases in the 3.x series of the PHPUnit Polyfills support PHPUnit 6.4 - 11.x (but don't support running tests on PHPUnit 10).
• Releases in the 4.x series of the PHPUnit Polyfills support PHPUnit 7.5 - 12.x (but don't support running tests on PHPUnit 10).

Please keep in mind that the PHPUnit Polyfills provide forward-compatibility. This means that features which PHPUnit no longer supports in PHPUnit 10.x, like expecting PHP deprecation notices or warnings, will not be supported in the PHPUnit Polyfills 2.x series and features not supported in PHPUnit 11.x, will not be supported in the PHPUnit Polyfills 3.x series etc.

Please refer to the PHPUnit 10 release notification/PHPUnit 10 changelog, PHPUnit 11 release notification/PHPUnit 11 changelog and/or the PHPUnit 12 release notification/PHPUnit 12 changelog to inform your decision on whether or not to upgrade (yet).

Using this library

Each of the polyfills and helpers has been setup as a trait and can be imported and used in any test file which extends the PHPUnit native TestCase class.

If the polyfill is not needed for the particular PHPUnit version on which the tests are being run, the autoloader will automatically load an empty trait with that same name, so you can safely use these traits in tests which need to be PHPUnit cross-version compatible.

Alternatively, you can use one of the TestCase classes provided by this library instead of using the PHPUnit native TestCase class.

In that case, all polyfills and helpers will be available whenever needed.

Supported ways of calling the assertions

By default, PHPUnit supports four ways of calling assertions:

1. As a method in the TestCase class - $this->assertSomething().
2. Statically as a method in the TestCase class - self/static/parent::assertSomething().
3. Statically as a method of the Assert class - Assert::assertSomething().
4. As a global function - assertSomething().

The polyfills in this library support the first two ways of calling the assertions as those are the most commonly used type of assertion calls.

For the polyfills to work, a test class is required to be a (grand-)child of the PHPUnit native TestCase class.

Features

Polyfill traits

PHPUnit < 8.4.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\ExpectExceptionMessageMatches

Polyfills the TestCase::expectExceptionMessageMatches() method.

This method was introduced in PHPUnit 8.4.0 to improve the name of the TestCase::expectExceptionMessageRegExp() method. The TestCase::expectExceptionMessageRegExp() method was soft deprecated in PHPUnit 8.4.0, hard deprecated (warning) in PHPUnit 8.5.3 and removed in PHPUnit 9.0.0.

PHPUnit < 8.5.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\AssertFileEqualsSpecializations

Polyfills the following methods:

These methods were introduced in PHPUnit 8.5.0 as alternatives to using Assert::assertFileEquals() and Assert::assertFileNotEquals() with these optional parameters. Passing the respective optional parameters to these methods was hard deprecated in PHPUnit 8.5.0 and removed in PHPUnit 9.0.0.

PHPUnit < 9.0.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\EqualToSpecializations

Polyfills the following methods:

These methods, which are typically used to verify parameters passed to Mock Objects, were introduced in PHPUnit 9.0.0 as alternatives to using Assert::EqualTo() with these optional parameters. Support for passing the respective optional parameters to Assert::EqualTo() was removed in PHPUnit 9.0.0.

PHPUnit < 9.1.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\AssertionRenames

Polyfills the following renamed methods:

• Assert::assertIsNotReadable(), introduced as alternative for Assert::assertNotIsReadable().
• Assert::assertIsNotWritable(), introduced as alternative for Assert::assertNotIsWritable().
• Assert::assertDirectoryDoesNotExist(), introduced as alternative for Assert::assertDirectoryNotExists().
• Assert::assertDirectoryIsNotReadable(), introduced as alternative for Assert::assertDirectoryNotIsReadable().
• Assert::assertDirectoryIsNotWritable(), introduced as alternative for Assert::assertDirectoryNotIsWritable().
• Assert::assertFileDoesNotExist(), introduced as alternative for Assert::assertFileNotExists().
• Assert::assertFileIsNotReadable(), introduced as alternative for Assert::assertFileNotIsReadable().
• Assert::assertFileIsNotWritable(), introduced as alternative for Assert::assertFileNotIsWritable().
• Assert::assertMatchesRegularExpression(), introduced as alternative for Assert::assertRegExp().
• Assert::assertDoesNotMatchRegularExpression(), introduced as alternative for Assert::assertNotRegExp().

These methods were introduced in PHPUnit 9.1.0. The original methods these new methods replace were hard deprecated in PHPUnit 9.1.0 and removed in PHPUnit 10.0.0.

PHPUnit < 9.3.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\AssertClosedResource

Polyfills the following methods:

These methods were introduced in PHPUnit 9.3.0.

Additionally, this trait contains a helper method shouldClosedResourceAssertionBeSkipped().

Due to some bugs in PHP itself, the "is closed resource" determination cannot always be done reliably, most notably for the libxml extension.

This helper function can determine whether or not the current "value under test" in combination with the PHP version on which the test is being run is affected by these bugs.

:warning: The PHPUnit native implementation of these assertions is also affected by these bugs! The shouldClosedResourceAssertionBeSkipped() helper method is therefore available cross-version.

Usage examples:

:point_right: While this polyfill is tested extensively, testing for these kind of bugs exhaustively is hard. Please report any bugs found and include a clear code sample to reproduce the issue.

PHPUnit < 9.4.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\AssertObjectEquals

Polyfills the Assert::assertObjectEquals() method to verify two (value) objects are considered equal. This assertion expects an object to contain a comparator method in the object itself. This comparator method is subsequently called to verify the "equalness" of the objects.

The assertObjectEquals() assertion was introduced in PHPUnit 9.4.0.

:information_source: In PHPUnit Polyfills 1.x and 2.x, the polyfill for this assertion had some limitations. These limitations are no longer present in PHPUnit Polyfills 3.x and the assertion now matches the PHPUnit native implementation.

PHPUnit < 10.0.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\AssertIgnoringLineEndings

Polyfills the following methods:

These methods were introduced in PHPUnit 10.0.0.

PHPUnit < 10.0.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\AssertIsList

Polyfills the following method:

This method was introduced in PHPUnit 10.0.0.

PHPUnit < 10.1.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\AssertObjectProperty

Polyfills the following methods:

These methods were introduced in PHPUnit 10.1.0 as alternatives to the Assert::assertObjectHasAttribute() and Assert::assertObjectNotHasAttribute() methods, which were hard deprecated (warning) in PHPUnit 9.6.1 and removed in PHPUnit 10.0.0.

These methods were later backported to the PHPUnit 9 branch and included in the PHPUnit 9.6.11 release.

PHPUnit < 11.0.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\AssertArrayWithListKeys

Polyfills the following methods:

These methods were introduced in PHPUnit 11.0.0.

This functionality resembles the functionality previously offered by the Assert::assertArraySubset() assertion, which was removed in PHPUnit 9.0.0, but with higher precision.

Refactoring tests which still use Assert::assertArraySubset() to use the new assertions should be considered as an upgrade path.

PHPUnit < 11.0.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\ExpectUserDeprecation

These methods were introduced in PHPUnit 11.0.0.

This functionality resembles the functionality previously offered by the TestCase::expectDeprecationMessage() and TestCase::expectDeprecationMessageMatches() methods, which were removed in PHPUnit 10.0.0.

The polyfill use the old methods under the hood for PHPUnit <= 9, however, there are some pertinent differences in behaviour between the old and the new methods, which users of the polyfill should be aware of.

Please keep these differences in mind when writing tests using the expectUserDeprecationMessage*() methods.

Note: on PHPUnit 9.5.x, when using the expectUserDeprecationMessage*() expectations, a "_Expecting E_DEPRECATED and E_USERDEPRECATED is deprecated and will no longer be possible in PHPUnit 10." deprecation will be shown in the test output. As long at the actual test uses the expectUserDeprecationMessage*() expectations, this depreation message can be safely ignored.

:information_source: Important: when using the expectUserDeprecationMessage*() expectation(s) in a test, the test should be annotated with a #[IgnoreDeprecations] attribute.

PHPUnit < 11.2.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\AssertObjectNotEquals

Polyfills the Assert::assertObjectNotEquals() method to verify two (value) objects are not considered equal. This is the sister-method to the PHPUnit 9.4+ Assert::assertObjectEquals() method.

This assertion expects an object to contain a comparator method in the object itself. This comparator method is subsequently called to verify the "equalness" of the objects.

The assertObjectNotEquals() assertion was introduced in PHPUnit 11.2.0.

PHPUnit < 11.5.0: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\Polyfills\AssertContainsOnly

Polyfills the following methods:

These methods were introduced in PHPUnit 11.5.0 as alternatives to the Assert::assertContainsOnly() and Assert::assertNotContainsOnly() methods, which were soft deprecated in PHPUnit 11.5.0, hard deprecated (warning) in PHPUnit 12.0.0 and will be removed in PHPUnit 13.0.0.

• The assertContains[Not]OnlyClosedResource() methods are affected by issues in older PHP versions. Please read the warning about checking for closed resources and how to optional skip such tests.

TestCases

PHPUnit 8.0.0 introduced a void return type declaration to the "fixture" methods - setUpBeforeClass(), setUp(), tearDown() and tearDownAfterClass(). As the void return type was not introduced until PHP 7.1, this makes it more difficult to create cross-version compatible tests when using fixtures, due to signature mismatches.

This library contains two basic TestCase options to overcome this issue.

Option 1: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\TestCases\TestCase

This TestCase overcomes the signature mismatch by having two versions. The correct one will be loaded depending on the PHPUnit version being used.

When using this TestCase, if an individual test, or another TestCase which extends this TestCase, needs to overload any of the "fixture" methods, it should do so by using a snake_case variant of the original fixture method name, i.e. set_up_before_class(), set_up(), assert_pre_conditions(), assert_post_conditions(), tear_down() and tear_down_after_class().

The snake_case methods will automatically be called by PHPUnit.

IMPORTANT: The snake_case methods should not call the PHPUnit parent, i.e. do not use parent::setUp() from within an overloaded set_up() method. If necessary, DO call parent::set_up().

Option 2: Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\TestCases\XTestCase

This TestCase overcomes the signature mismatch by using the PHPUnit @before[Class] and @after[Class] annotations in combination with different methods names, i.e. setUpFixturesBeforeClass(), setUpFixtures(), tearDownFixtures() and tearDownFixturesAfterClass().

When using this TestCase, overloaded fixture methods need to use the @beforeClass, @before, @after and @afterClass annotations. The naming of the overloaded methods is open as long as the method names don't conflict with the PHPUnit native method names.

TestListener

:warning: Important :warning:

The TestListener polyfill in PHPUnit Polyfills 2.0/3.0/4.0 is not (yet) compatible with PHPUnit 10.x/11.x/12.x.

If you need the TestListener polyfill, it is recommended to stay on the PHPUnit Polyfills 1.x series for the time being and to watch and upvote the related ticket.

The below documentation is for the PHPUnit 7.x-9.x TestListener polyfill implementation.

The method signatures in the PHPUnit TestListener interface have changed a number of times across versions. Additionally, the use of the TestListener principle has been deprecated in PHPUnit 7 in favour of using the TestRunner hook interfaces.

Note: while deprecated in PHPUnit 7, the TestListener interface has not yet been removed and is still supported in PHPUnit 9.x.

It is recommended to use the TestRunner hook interfaces extensions instead.

Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\TestListeners\TestListenerDefaultImplementation

This TestListenerDefaultImplementation trait overcomes the signature mismatches by having multiple versions and loading the correct one depending on the PHPUnit version being used.

Similar to the TestCase implementation, snake_case methods without type declarations are used to get round the signature mismatches. The snake_case methods will automatically be called.

Implementations of the TestListener interface may be using any of the following patterns:

Replace these with:

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Will this package polyfill functionality which was removed from PHPUnit ?

As a rule of thumb, removed functionality will not be polyfilled in this package.

For frequently used, removed PHPUnit functionality, "helpers" may be provided. These helpers are only intended as an interim solution to allow users of this package more time to refactor their tests away from the removed functionality.

Removed functionality without PHPUnit native replacement

Q: Can this library be used when the tests are being run via a PHPUnit Phar file ?

Yes, this package can also be used when running tests via a PHPUnit Phar file.

In that case, make sure that the phpunitpolyfills-autoload.php file is explicitly required in the test bootstrap file. (Not necessary when the Composer vendor/autoload.php file is used as, or required in, the test bootstrap.)

Q: How do I run my tests when the library is installed via the GitHub Actions setup-php action ?

As of shivammathur/setup-php version 2.15.0, the PHPUnit Polyfills are available as one of the tools which can be installed directly by the Setup-PHP GitHub action runner.

The above step will install both the PHPUnit Polyfills, as well as PHPUnit, as Composer global packages.

After this step has run, you can run PHPUnit, like you would normally, by using phpunit.

:point_right: If you rely on Composer for autoloading your project files, you will still need to run composer dump-autoload --dev and include the project local vendor/autoload.php file as/in your test bootstrap.

:mortar_board: Why this works:

Composer will place all files in the global Composer bin directory in the system path and the Composer installed PHPUnit version will load the Composer global autoload.php file, which will automatically also load the PHPUnit Polyfills.

Now you may wonder, "what about if I explicitly request both phpunit as well as phpunit-polyfills in tools?"

In that case, when you run phpunit, the PHPUnit PHAR will not know how to locate the PHPUnit Polyfills, so you will need to do some wizardry in your test bootstrap to get things working.

Q: How can I verify the version used of the PHPUnit Polyfills library ?

For complex test setups, like when the Polyfills are provided via a test suite dependency, or may already be loaded via an overarching project, it can be useful to be able to check that a version of the package is used which complies with the requirements for your test suite.

As of version 1.0.1, the PHPUnit Polyfills Autoload class contains a version number which can be used for this purpose.

Typically such a check would be done in the test suite bootstrap file and could look something like this:

Q: Why don't the PHPUnit Polyfills 3.x and 4.x versions support running tests on PHPUnit 10 ?

PHPUnit 11.0 introduced the expectUserDeprecationMessage*() methods. To polyfill these for PHPUnit 10 would mean that the Polyfills package could no longer be a "drop-in" helper package, but would need to set extra requirements on test suites using the polyfills when used with PHPUnit 10 (like hooking into events or compulsory use of the TestCases provided by this package).

As it was deemed desirable enough to polyfill the methods, the releases from the 3.x branch of the PHPUnit Polyfills do not support running tests on PHPUnit 10.

The impact of this compromise is minimal, as, in the most common case of running the tests with Composer installed dependencies, this just and only means that test runs on PHP 8.1 will use PHPUnit 9 instead of PHPUnit 10. There is no other impact.

Keep in mind that functionality added in PHPUnit 10, is still polyfilled and available in PHPUnit Polyfills 3.x/4.x.

Contributing

Contributions to this project are welcome. Clone the repo, branch off from the oldest #.x branch the patch applies to, make your changes, commit them and send in a pull request against the correct #.x branch.

If you are unsure whether the changes you are proposing would be welcome, please open an issue first to discuss your proposal.

License

This code is released under the BSD-3-Clause License.