Re: PHPUnit bugs/fixes

Alan Knowles wrote:

obviously - if they are failing like this - the default behaviour is actually 100% correct for a 'anally retentive' unit test :) I guess you are looking for a more 'loose' match there. eg. a == rather than a ===

i can not really agree on that one, since PHP is a type-less language i expect 7=='7' to be true should another method not assertEquals but assert<SomethingElse> be used or introduced? to show the code i am working on:

        $newData = array(   'login'     =>  'cain',
                            'password'  =>  '0',
                            'name'      =>  'Lutz Testern',
                            'address_id'=>  0,
                            'company_id'=>  0
                        );
        // save the user in the DB and return the id generated
        $userId = addUser( $newData );
        // save the userId in the array so it contains the same
        // data as teh row in the DB
        $newData['id'] = $userId;

        // $db is an instance of PEAR::DB
        $dbData = $db->getRow('SELECT * FROM user WHERE id='.$userId);
        $this->assertEquals( $newData , $dbData ,
                            'Insert failed!');

now the problem is that the $db->getRow returns the data all as strings

      a:6:{s:10:"address_id";s:1:"0";s:10:"company_id";s:1:"0";  ...

but the content is the same, even though the types are not the same

      a:6:{s:10:"address_id";i:0;    s:10:"company_id";i:0;  ...

since db->getRow doesnt know the actual types so this case could never be tested this way! but how?

Wolfram Kriesing wrote:

i was using PHPUnit for some testing, 2 problems occured comparing arrays using

    serialize($expected) != serilaize($actual)

is not succedding because of 1. the order of the keys is not the same

    ksort($expected);
    ksort($actual);
    serialize($expected) != serilaize($actual)

this helps 2.

    even if the values are the same the types might not be
    see:
    a:6:{s:10:"address_id";i:0;    s:10:"company_id";i:0;  ...
    a:6:{s:10:"address_id";s:1:"0";s:10:"company_id";s:1:"0";  ...

    one solutions would be
    the array has to be foreach'ed to set all the types to 'string'
    and compare it then, that should work

any easier ways?

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