PHP: Testing protected methods in CakePHP3
One of the things I recently had to deal with - PHP unit testing protected methods of the class in CakePHP 3. Few seconds of checking StackOverflow brought a nice and elegant way of checking protected methods using ReflectionClasses. Sebastian Bergmann has a complete guide how to check non-public functionality of the classes in his archieves. Here’s a short sample of the code using CakePHP3: <?php use Search\Model\Table\SaveSearchTable; use Cake\TestSuite\TestCase; class SaveSearchTableTest extends TestCase { public function setUp() { $this->SavedSearches = \Cake\ORM\TableRegistry::get('SavedSearches'); } public function testProtectedMethod() { $methodName = 'protectedMethod'; $reflectionClass = new \ReflectionClass('\Search\Model\Table\SaveSearchesTable'); $method = $reflectionClass->getMethod($methodName); $methodResult = $method->invokeArgs( $this->SavedSearches, ['arg1', ['arg2']]); $this->assertNotEmpty($methodResult); } }