Validation - updating tests
Open up app/tests/cases/EmployeesControllerTest.php and add a 'department' to $_records, e.g.:
<?php
// ...
public function testAdd() {
$this->assertEqual(2, count(Employees::all()));
$request = new Request();
$request->data = array(
'name' => 'Brand new user',
'department' => 'Scamping and nonsense'
);
// ...
Let's check that the model won't save without a department. We open up app/tests/cases/models/EmployeesTest.php and we're adding a setUp method, as well as testDepartmentIsMandatory. We're also no longer using our MockEmployee because we can connect to our test database for extra realism:
<?php
namespace app\tests\cases\models;
use app\models\Employees;
use li3_fixtures\test\Fixtures;
class EmployeesTest extends \lithium\test\Unit {
public function setUp() {
Fixtures::config(array(
'db' => array(
'adapter' => 'Connection',
'connection' => 'default',
'fixtures' => array(
'Employee' => 'app\tests\fixture\EmployeeFixture',
)
)
));
Fixtures::save('db');
}
public function testEmployeeHaveNames() {
$this->assertEqual('string', Employees::hasField('name')['type']);
}
public function testDepartmentIsMandatory() {
$employee = Employees::create(array(
'name' => 'No department'
));
$employee->save();
$errors = $employee->errors();
$this->assertEqual(
'Please let us know what department this person works in.',
$errors['department'][0]
);
}
}
?>
Now we're going to add a new test to app/tests/cases/controllers/EmployeesControllerTest.php:
<?php
// ...
use app\models\Employees;
// ...
public function testDepartmentIsMandatory() {
$this->assertEqual(2, count(Employees::all()));
$request = new Request();
$request->data = array('name' => 'Departmentless user');
$controller = new EmployeesController(array('request' => $request));
$response = $controller->add();
$this->assertEqual(
'Please let us know what department this person works in.',
$response['errors']['department'][0]
);
$this->assertEqual(2, count(Employees::all()));
}
This test ensures that the user cannot save a member of Employees to the database without specifying a department.
For more on validation, read the Li3 documentation