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1. 3.x modules/phpunit_example/tests/src/Unit/ProtectedPrivatesTest.php \Drupal\Tests\phpunit_example\Unit\ProtectedPrivatesTest::testPrivateAdd()

Test ProtectedPrivate::privateAdd().

We want to test a private method on a class. This is problematic because, by design, we don't have access to this method. However, we do have a tool available to help us out with this problem: We can override the accessibility of a method using reflection.

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File

phpunit_example/tests/src/Unit/ProtectedPrivatesTest.php, line 72

Class

ProtectedPrivatesTest

ProtectedPrivates unit testing of restricted methods.

Namespace

Drupal\Tests\phpunit_example\Unit

Code

public function testPrivateAdd($expected, $a, $b) {

  // Get a reflected, accessible version of the privateAdd() method.
  $private_method = $this
    ->getAccessibleMethod('Drupal\\phpunit_example\\ProtectedPrivates', 'privateAdd');

  // Create a new ProtectedPrivates object.
  $pp = new ProtectedPrivates();

  // Use the reflection to invoke on the object.
  $sum = $private_method
    ->invokeArgs($pp, [
    $a,
    $b,
  ]);

  // Make an assertion.
  $this
    ->assertEquals($expected, $sum);
}