Assert cache is empty.

Hi folks,

** Is the a way to assert that laravel cache is empty, in laravel 4 ? **

This is for acceptance testing. For example : - empty cache - view a post - update post - assert cache is empty

For the moment, I just use a file cache and assert there no more file in the cache folder (that's ok but not in the default path). But writing files to disk is slow. I don't think I can do this sort of tests using a memory cache (I am wrong) ?

The solution I'm thinking about is to implement an override of a storecache (apc I think, adding a registry touched when inserting and deleting caches, so I can implement a method isEmpty() that will satisfy my needs.

Why do I want to test cache while making acceptance tests ? Because I choose to implement only accept tests, that allow my project to fully change, inside, without having to rewrite the tests, urls will stay the same.

kfirba

11 years ago

Best Answer

Level 50

@seb7 If you are trying to test your cache with acceptance tests it means that the whole process should be done from the outside in. I believe your user don't have the ability to access your cache files and read them right?

The way I would go about it is something like this:

Create some post and cache it -> save content as for assertion
Update a post -> clear cache
Assert the post's content is different from step 1 which indicates that the cache was rewritten.

seb7

11 years ago

Level 1

Yeah, I didn't think of checking the content has changed, good idea ! Thanks.

seb7

11 years ago

Level 1

I did not grab the content but just before caching content, after it is rendered in response, I add . So now I can easily see if content from cache or not.

Thanks for the idea :)

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