Re: Class Posing

Stanislav Malyshev schrieb: > This looks like factory pattern. What's wrong with implementing it as > factory? Like I said before, the factory and singleton patterns are just example applications of this mechanism. What I want to use them for in PHPUnit is improving the Mock Objects system. Let us consider the following code: public function foo() { $bar = new Bar; $returh = $bar->doSomething(); // do something with $return return 'some value'; } When I want to test the foo() method, I want to stub out the usage of the Bar class, for example, and have Bar::doSomething() return a pre-configured value instead of performing its normal operation. As I cannot pass a stubbed version of $bar into the method, I currently do not have a way to stub Bar. With class posing, however, I can override the "new Bar" and have it create an object of my stub implementation of Bar instead. I hope this makes my motivation for the feature more clear. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14 09E4 98CD 6277 0E5B 6867 C514 B85B 5D69