PHP Mocking Final Class

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DanHabib picture DanHabib · Aug 25, 2015 · Viewed 16.2k times · Source

I am attempting to mock a php final class but since it is declared final I keep receiving this error:

PHPUnit_Framework_Exception: Class "Doctrine\ORM\Query" is declared "final" and cannot be mocked.

Is there anyway to get around this final behavior just for my unit tests without introducing any new frameworks?

Answer

Joe Watkins picture Joe Watkins · Oct 13, 2015

Since you mentioned you don't want to use any other framework, you are only leaving yourself one option: uopz

uopz is a black magic extension of the runkit-and-scary-stuff genre, intended to help with QA infrastructure.

uopz_flags is a function that can modify the flags of functions, methods and classes.

<?php
final class Test {}

/** ZEND_ACC_CLASS is defined as 0, just looks nicer ... **/

uopz_flags(Test::class, null, ZEND_ACC_CLASS);

$reflector = new ReflectionClass(Test::class);

var_dump($reflector->isFinal());
?>

Will yield

bool(false)

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