I feel confused about how to setup a database for the test envrionment in symfony 4. I used to deal with it in config_test.yml file in symfony 3 and below.
What is the best practice ? Should I recreate a doctrine.yaml file in config/packages/test ?
The documentation mentions how to run functional test using a database by editing the phpunit config :
<phpunit>
<php>
<!-- the value is the Doctrine connection string in DSN format -->
<env name="DATABASE_URL" value="mysql://USERNAME:[email protected]/DB_NAME" />
</php>
<!-- ... -->
</phpunit>
However it does not feet my needs since I need to be able to update schema/load fixtures to the test env.
For what you want to do I usually create a custom test bootstrap that runs the required doctrine commands and looks something like this:
# tests/bootstrap.php
<?php
if (isset($_ENV['BOOTSTRAP_RESET_DATABASE']) && $_ENV['BOOTSTRAP_RESET_DATABASE'] == true) {
echo "Resetting test database...";
passthru(sprintf(
'php "%s/../bin/console" doctrine:schema:drop --env=test --force --no-interaction',
__DIR__
));
passthru(sprintf(
'php "%s/../bin/console" doctrine:schema:update --env=test --force --no-interaction',
__DIR__
));
passthru(sprintf(
'php "%s/../bin/console" doctrine:fixtures:load --env=test --no-interaction',
__DIR__
));
echo " Done" . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;
}
require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';
In my phpunit.xml.dist
I addd the env variable:
<env name="DATABASE_URL" value="sqlite:///%kernel.project_dir%/var/test.db"/>
<env name="BOOTSTRAP_RESET_DATABASE" value="1" />
If you want to see a basic example I have a Symfony 4 demo project that uses this to set up a basic test database that is used by Functional Tests using the web test case. You can find it on GitHub: dbrumann/product-api
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