Problem with cookies and unittesting (functional testing) about yaf

[akDeveloper]

It seems that you want to test your pluging using some values that are stored in a cookie.

I dont think that you can use cookies in PHPUnit but i am not 100% sure about this, cause PHPUnit use cli command and not http.

You can add a setter method to your plugin where you pass cookies values and use this method in your tests.

[pdeszynski]

Yes, but the solution would be a method which would allow me to fake headers for request by overwriting them. In such a case I wouldn't need real cookies support.

Adding setter method in a plugin also it's not a good solution because the code depends on cookies from Yaf_Request, in real app I won't be able to preset these cookies.

[akDeveloper]

I see, so in your plugin you use for example $request->getCookies() method.And you want somehow to set some cookies to the Request object for testing right?

Then i think it is better to create a mock subclass of Yaf_Request as you mention in your first post and create setCookies() and getCookies() methods in this class.

[pdeszynski]

For now it's done this way. I was wondering if there's better way to do this. It looks like it's currently the only possibility.

[akDeveloper]

I think that you use the best way. Mocking classes are common in unit tests and allow flexible testing.

Besides there is no reason to add a setCookies() method in the core Request object, cause Request object should have headers for read only purpose. setCookies() method should have meaning if it was in Response object.

[laruence]

:)

[pdeszynski]

Ok, I will leave it then this way. Thank you for the response (and sorry for making here the thread but I didn't found any other place where I would be able to ask a question about Yaf).