The most important function of this module is to clean a database before each test.
This module also provides actions to perform checks in a database, e.g. seeInDatabase()
In order to have your database populated with data you need a raw SQL dump.
Simply put the dump in the tests/Support/Data directory (by default) and specify the path in the config.
The next time after the database is cleared, all your data will be restored from the dump.
Don’t forget to include CREATE TABLE statements in the dump.
Supported and tested databases are:
MySQL
SQLite (i.e. just one file)
PostgreSQL
Also available:
MS SQL
Oracle
Connection is done by database drivers, which are stored in the Codeception\Lib\Driver namespace.
Check out the drivers if you run into problems loading dumps and cleaning databases.
Example Functional.suite.yml
modules:enabled:-Db:dsn:'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb'user:'root'password:''dump:'tests/Support/Data/dump.sql'populate:true# whether the dump should be loaded before the test suite is startedcleanup:true# whether the dump should be reloaded before each testreconnect:true# whether the module should reconnect to the database before each testwaitlock:10# wait lock (in seconds) that the database session should use for DDL statementsdatabases:# include more database configs and switch between them in tests.skip_cleanup_if_failed:true# Do not perform the cleanup if the tests failed. If this is used, manual cleanup might be required when re-runningssl_key:'/path/to/client-key.pem'# path to the SSL key (MySQL specific, see https://php.net/manual/de/ref.pdo-mysql.php#pdo.constants.mysql-attr-key)ssl_cert:'/path/to/client-cert.pem'# path to the SSL certificate (MySQL specific, see https://php.net/manual/de/ref.pdo-mysql.php#pdo.constants.mysql-attr-ssl-cert)ssl_ca:'/path/to/ca-cert.pem'# path to the SSL certificate authority (MySQL specific, see https://php.net/manual/de/ref.pdo-mysql.php#pdo.constants.mysql-attr-ssl-ca)ssl_verify_server_cert:false# disables certificate CN verification (MySQL specific, see https://php.net/manual/de/ref.pdo-mysql.php)ssl_cipher:'AES256-SHA'# list of one or more permissible ciphers to use for SSL encryption (MySQL specific, see https://php.net/manual/de/ref.pdo-mysql.php#pdo.constants.mysql-attr-cipher)initial_queries:# list of queries to be executed right after connection to the database has been initiated, i.e. creating the database if it does not exist or preparing the database collation-'CREATEDATABASEIFNOTEXISTStemp_db;'-'USEtemp_db;'-'SETNAMESutf8;'
There are two ways of loading the dump into your database:
Populator
The recommended approach is to configure a populator, an external command to load a dump. Command parameters like host, username, password, database
can be obtained from the config and inserted into placeholders:
For MySQL:
modules:enabled:-Db:dsn:'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb'user:'root'password:''dump:'tests/Support/Data/dump.sql'populate:true# run populator before all testscleanup:true# run populator before each testpopulator:'mysql-u$user-h$host$dbname<$dump'
For PostgreSQL (using pg_restore)
modules:enabled:-Db:dsn:'pgsql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb'user:'root'password:''dump:'tests/Support/Data/db_backup.dump'populate:true# run populator before all testscleanup:true# run populator before each testpopulator:'pg_restore-u$user-h$host-D$dbname<$dump'
Variable names are being taken from config and DSN which has a keyword=value format, so you should expect to have a variable named as the
keyword with the full value inside it.
Db module by itself can load SQL dump without external tools by using current database connection.
This approach is system-independent, however, it is slower than using a populator and may have parsing issues (see below).
Provide a path to SQL file in dump config option:
modules:enabled:-Db:dsn:'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb'user:'root'password:''populate:true# load dump before all testscleanup:true# load dump for each testdump:'tests/_data/dump.sql'
To parse SQL Db file, it should follow this specification:
Comments are permitted.
The dump.sql may contain multiline statements.
The delimiter, a semi-colon in this case, must be on the same line as the last statement:
-- Add a few contacts to the table.REPLACEINTO`Contacts`(`created`,`modified`,`status`,`contact`,`first`,`last`)VALUES(NOW(),NOW(),1,'Bob Ross','Bob','Ross'),(NOW(),NOW(),1,'Fred Flintstone','Fred','Flintstone');-- Remove existing orders for testing.DELETEFROM`Order`;
Query generation
seeInDatabase, dontSeeInDatabase, seeNumRecords, grabFromDatabase and grabNumRecords methods
accept arrays as criteria. WHERE condition is generated using item key as a field name and
item value as a field value.
Make sure you are connected to the right database.
<?php$I->seeNumRecords(2,'users');//executed on default database$I->amConnectedToDatabase('db_books');$I->seeNumRecords(30,'books');//executed on db_books database//All the next queries will be on db_books
dontSeeInDatabase
param string $table
param array $criteria
return void
Effect is opposite to ->seeInDatabase
Asserts that there is no record with the given column values in a database.
Provide table name and column values.
Inserts an SQL record into a database. This record will be erased after the test,
unless you’ve configured “skip_cleanup_if_failed”, and the test fails.
Can be used with a callback if you don’t want to change the current database in your test.
<?php$I->seeNumRecords(2,'users');//executed on default database$I->performInDatabase('db_books',function($I){$I->seeNumRecords(30,'books');//executed on db_books database});$I->seeNumRecords(2,'users');//executed on default database
List of actions can be pragmatically built using Codeception\Util\ActionSequence:
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