Problems with unitesting

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi!

I don’t know if this is a bug, but when I try to test (phpunit test) a model with a renderPartial it doesn’t work

Even this simple test - NO TEST - doesn’t work




public function testSimple(){

  Yii::app()->controller->renderPartial(PATH TO A VIEW FILE, param(),TRUE);

}

The output is the following:

Fatal error: Call to a member function renderPartial() in THE FILE SCRIPT

Well, the test doesn’t work but the model works perfect.

Somebody knows How to test a model that includes a render partial function?

Thansks

2

You are testing model without application context so you don’t have controller there. To test your code as a whole you can look at functional testing.

3

Hi samdark .

I’m using netbeans, I have several test, and they work ok.

If I test my db cx it works, even If I use the Yii:app() objet


public function testConnection(){

        $cx=Yii::app()->db;

        $this->assertNotEquals(NULL, $cx);

}

A functional testing is not the solution in my case because I’m testing a model with a function that sends an email, there is where I use the partial render for the email body.

Some clues?

thanks!

4

I meant you, of course, have an application instantiated but it’s done via bootstrap script: you are not processing web request so no controller is being used and you can’t get it from your Model.

5

hello,

what if you put the email sending part itself into the Controller instead of the Model?

–iM

6

thanks man, These are my first steps in unit testing - yii is amazing!! I come from using CodeIgniter and I feel yii like a F16 full army

7

Thanks imehesz, I think I should move my sending email code from the model. So, to have a unit test for the sending email function I should use a funtional test?

Thanks men

8

Not necessary. You can move sending emails to Email component and test it separated from controller and model.