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I guess this screencast is for you:
https://laracasts.com/lessons/to-mock-external-services
In conlusion: Don't mock what you don't own, or wrap it and test your wrapper :)
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Jun 24, 2015
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How to TDD/BDD by Mocking External APIs
I can't seem to find a way to do TDD/BDD with external APIs in PHP, none-the-less Laravel. It would be great is there was a PHP package similar to WireMock (ref: http://wiremock.org/ ). Most alternative seem to be out of date (dependencies or the lib itself).
Ideally, I'd love to see a video on how to do this easily and properly.
For now I'm going to try https://github.com/InterNations/http-mock , but I'd love to hear any other suggestions/alternatives out there.
UPDATE: I did also just find https://github.com/aerisweather/GuzzleHttpMock which seems to be promising considering I've used the Guzzle libraries in the past.
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Do you know if this class belongs to a series?
Level 3
I use AspectMock (https://github.com/Codeception/AspectMock) to mock out the API wrappers in my projects, so I can test all the possible error conditions from an external API as well as what happens when things are going well. For example...
// Mock the stripe API
$apiMock = test::double(StripeApiWrapper::class, [
'createCustomer' => [
'id' => 'TestStripeId',
'subscription' => 'TestSubscription',
'cardBrand' => 'VisaTest',
'lastFour' => '1234',
]
]);
I can then perform a normal functional test in Laravel, and when it gets to calling Stripe, it will instead return that array and I can test that the users account has been updated to the correct state.
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That's cool @rikh . Thanks!
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Hi I'm trying to use AspectMock with the 'httpful' library.. my attempt so far is...
$apiMock = test::double(\Httpful\Request::class, [
'get' => [
'some' => 'sample data'
]
]);
I'm getting ' Call to a member function registerClass() on a non-object '. I'm obviously phrasing the reference to httpful's request class wrong, but I'm also unsure whether what I'm trying to do is even possible.
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