Class CakeTestFixture

CakeTestFixture is responsible for building and destroying tables to be used during testing.

Package: Cake\TestSuite\Fixture
Copyright: Copyright (c) Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
License: MIT License
Located at Cake/TestSuite/Fixture/CakeTestFixture.php

Method Detail

__constructsource public 

__construct( )

Instantiate the fixture.

Throws

CakeException
on invalid datasource usage.

createsource public 

create( DboSource $db )

Run before all tests execute, should return SQL statement to create table for this fixture could be executed successfully.

Parameters

DboSource $db
An instance of the database object used to create the fixture table

Returns

boolean
True on success, false on failure

dropsource public 

drop( DboSource $db )

Run after all tests executed, should return SQL statement to drop table for this fixture.

Parameters

DboSource $db
An instance of the database object used to create the fixture table

Returns

boolean
True on success, false on failure

initsource public 

init( )

Initialize the fixture.

Throws

MissingModelException
Whe importing from a model that does not exist.

insertsource public 

insert( DboSource $db )

Run before each tests is executed, should return a set of SQL statements to insert records for the table of this fixture could be executed successfully.

Parameters

DboSource $db
An instance of the database into which the records will be inserted

Returns

boolean
on success or if there are no records to insert, or false on failure

Throws

CakeException
if counts of values and fields do not match.

truncatesource public 

truncate( DboSource $db )

Truncates the current fixture. Can be overwritten by classes extending CakeFixture to trigger other events before / after truncate.

Parameters

DboSource $db
A reference to a db instance

Returns

boolean
bool

Properties summary

$canUseMemorysource

public boolean

Fixture data can be stored in memory by default. When table is created for a fixture the MEMORY engine is used where possible. Set $canUseMemory to false if you don't want this.

true

$createdsource

public array

List of datasources where this fixture has been created

array()

$dbsource

public object

CakePHP's DBO driver (e.g: DboMysql).

null

$fieldssource

public array

Fields / Schema for the fixture. This array should match the output of Model::schema()

array()

$namesource

public string

Name of the object

null

$primaryKeysource

public string

The primary key for the table this fixture represents.

null

$recordssource

public array

Fixture records to be inserted.

array()

$tablesource

public string

Full Table Name

null

$useDbConfigsource

public string

Fixture Datasource

'test'

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