Pest Higher Order Expectation for carbon date object

Is it possible to use higher order expectation to compare carbon date object?

E.g

$releaseDate = now();
$product->update(['release_date' => $releaseDate]);

expect($product)
   ->release_date->toBe($releaseDate)

$release_date is cast to date but it's throwing error:

Failed asserting that two variables reference the same object.

Can do it manually comparing the date string but wondering if higher order expectation can handle this.

expect($product->release_date->toDateString())
        ->toBe($releaseDate->toDateString());

s4muel

2 years ago

Best Answer

Level 50

the objects are never going to be the same, thus it wont work with toBe() to compare the carbons.

but i think you can achieve a very similar to what you want by a slightly tweaked syntax:

    expect($product)
        ->brand->toBe('samsung') //just a dummy in this case, of course, just to show the higher order expectation
        ->release_date->toDateString()->toBe($releaseDate->toDateString())
        ->category->toBe('phone'); //another dummy

give it a shot a let us know

gizmojo

2 years ago

Level 3

That works great thanks didn't realise you could do that.

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