Why I am unable to mock a php static function that is used in factory patern?

Hello May I have some help on that?

Why I get `Could not load mock MyClassConsumer, class already exists` once I test my phpUnit static methods that create the very same class?

Mar 23 '20 Comments: 1 Answers: 1

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I have the following class:

public function MyClass
{
  public static foo():string
  {
    // Some logic there
    // This is a dummy value just for explaining the problem
    return 'n123';
  }

  public static factory():MyClass
  {
    return new MyClass();
  }
}

Also I have the following class as well:

class MyClassConsumer

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[Ryan Latta]

Your code looks like it has a few issues.

I think the reason you are having a specific problem right now though is you've done a spy() which is a mock(). Then you are trying to alias it, which won't work. It looks like you alias to classes that haven't been loaded. In this case you just did a spy to it, so it is loaded, so you shouldn't alias.

Hope this helps.