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Howdy folks, relatively new to unit testing in Laravel. I'm trying to mock an eloquent model using the following pattern mentioned in the docs for 11.x, but the mock doesnt seem to be getting injected properly:
$storePhoneNumber = Mockery::mock();
$storePhoneNumber->twilio_phone_number_sid = self::$sid;
$storePhoneNumber->notification_email = self::$testEmail;
$storePhoneNumber->phone_number = self::$testPhoneNumber;
$this->storePhoneNumber->shouldReceive('where')
->with('phone_number', self::$testPhoneNumber)
->once()
->andReturn(Mockery::self())
->shouldReceive('first')
->once()
->andReturn($storePhoneNumber);
$this->instance(StorePhoneNumber::class, $this->storePhoneNumber);
In the class I'm attempting to fetch a record from the StorePhoneNumber model inside of a method, but the model isnt getting mocked and has no records, so it returns null instead of returning the object I'm passing to andReturn().
What am I missing here? I want to avoid using the database here as much as possible, as I've managed to mock all of the other external services I'm using (mostly Twilio).
Perhaps the problem is just this.
$storePhoneNumber = Mockery::mock();
$storePhoneNumber->twilio_phone_number_sid = self::$sid;
$storePhoneNumber->notification_email = self::$testEmail;
$storePhoneNumber->phone_number = self::$testPhoneNumber;
$storePhoneNumber->shouldReceive('where')
$storePhoneNumber->shouldReceive('where')
instead of
$this->storePhoneNumber->shouldReceive('where')
Nah, I tried both approaches. I'm instantiating an instance of $storePhoneNumber on the class itself as a means of reusing the mock in subsequent tests.
Can you show the code of the whole test please ?
I think the problem may be that the helper class that I'm testing isnt part of Laravel's service container, so it doesnt implicitly get the new mocked versions of the models. I may need to either inject these model classes from the controller or find a way to include them in the service container.
@GrantMeFood You can mock only the classes that are in the service container.
But why don't you use the Laravel mockery code ?
https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/mocking
I don't find anywhere in the documentation the piece of code you have posted above.
Just to close the loop here for folks running into this in the future: my previous comment about service containers was exactly the problem. In my helper class, I'm instantiating my models using the make() method from the App's service container:
$storePhoneNumber = App::make(StorePhoneNumber::class);
$sp = $storePhoneNumber.where('someField', 'someValue'); // this is now using the mock in my tests instead of using the native implementation
Edit: also, make sure you use $this->app->instance to bind the mocked Model class instead of just $this->instance, as the latter doesnt refer to the service container itself at the app level.
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