MonkeyPatcher

Access private functions and properties of PHP classes. Primarily used to muck with things under test.

• MonkeyPatcher
• Install
• Usage
  • Setup
  • Access a private function
  • Set a private property
  • Get a private property
• Testing
• Contributing
• Credits
• License

Install

Via Composer

$ composer require kidfund/monkey-patcher

Usage

Note: If you are using this, you may have a broken pattern somewhere. Either in your main code or in test-land. But, sometimes you need it!

Setup

Add the trait to your test

class MonkeyPatcherUnitTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    use MonkeyPatcher;

Access a private function

$this->invokeMethod($object, 'do', ['something']);

Set a private property

$this->setProperty($object, 'msg', 'hello');

Get a private property

$this->getProperty($object, 'msg');

Testing

$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING and CONDUCT for details.

Credits

• @timborder

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.