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Symfony2 Controller Testing without Application

Controller testing using the WebTestCase requires a Symfony Kernel and with that a complete application. However you can just ship your own simple kernel with just the dependencies necessary to test your application. This way you can easily create functional tests for bundles without the bundle requiring an application.

<?php
// Tests/Controller/App/AppKernel.php

use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Kernel;
use Symfony\Component\Config\Loader\LoaderInterface;

class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
    public function registerBundles()
    {
        $bundles = array(
            // Dependencies
            new Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\FrameworkBundle(),
            new Symfony\Bundle\SecurityBundle\SecurityBundle(),
            new Symfony\Bundle\MonologBundle\MonologBundle(),
            new Symfony\Bundle\TwigBundle\TwigBundle(),
            new Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\SensioFrameworkExtraBundle(),
            new JMS\SerializerBundle\JMSSerializerBundle($this),
            new FOS\RestBundle\FOSRestBundle(),
            // My Bundle to test
            new Beberlei\WorkflowBundle\BeberleiWorkflowBundle(),
        );

        return $bundles;
    }

    public function registerContainerConfiguration(LoaderInterface $loader)
    {
        // We don't need that Environment stuff, just one config
        $loader->load(__DIR__.'/config.yml');
    }
}
# Tests/Controller/App/config.yml
framework:
    secret:          secret
    charset:         UTF-8
    test: ~
    router:          { resource: "%kernel.root_dir%/routing.yml" }
    form:            true
    csrf_protection: true
    validation:      { enable_annotations: true }
    templating:      { engines: ['twig'] }
    session:
        auto_start:     false
        storage_id: session.storage.filesystem

monolog:
    handlers:
        main:
            type:         fingers_crossed
            action_level: error
            handler:      nested
        nested:
            type:  stream
            path:  %kernel.logs_dir%/%kernel.environment%.log
            level: debug

# Tests/Controller/App/routing.yml
BeberleiWorkflowBundle:
    resource: "@BeberleiWorkflowBundle/Controller/"
    type:     annotation
    prefix:   /

I assume the setup that Henrik described in his "`Travis & Composer sitting in a Tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G" blog post <http://henrik.bjrnskov.dk/travis-and-composer-sitting-in-a-tree/>`_.

His setup is missing the spl_autoload_register() call in the bootstrap file though.

<?php
// Tests/bootstrap.php
$loader = @include __DIR__ . '/../vendor/.composer/autoload.php';
if (!$loader) {
    die(<<<'EOT'
You must set up the project dependencies, run the following commands:
wget http://getcomposer.org/composer.phar
php composer.phar install
EOT
    );
}
\Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationRegistry::registerLoader(array($loader, 'loadClass'));

spl_autoload_register(function($class) {
    if (0 === strpos($class, 'Beberlei\\WorkflowBundle\\')) {
        $path = __DIR__.'/../'.implode('/', array_slice(explode('\\', $class), 2)).'.php';
        if (!stream_resolve_include_path($path)) {
            return false;
        }
        require_once $path;
        return true;
    }
});

That means your bundle should have a composer.json that loads all the dependencies.

We have to tell the WebTestCase base class where to find this kernel:

<!-- phpunit.xml.dist -->
<phpunit bootstrap="Tests/bootstrap.php">
    <php>
        <server name="KERNEL_DIR" value="Tests/Controller/App" />
    </php>
</phpunit>

Now just run your web-test cases.

If you want to debug the logging happening inside the Kernel just comment out the Monolog lines to get the log-messages printed to the screen.

You have to add the `Tests/App/cache` and `Tests/App/logs` to your version control ignore files.

Published: 2012-02-25 Tags: #Symfony