symfony2 unit-testing validation with custom validator

Question

I'm trying to write a test for an model which has both some normal validators and a custom validator using an entity manager and the request. I'm using phpunit for my tests if this matters for some reason.

I am testing the custom validator in another test by stubing both the entity manager and the request and then validating some objects. As this proves that the custom validation works, I would only need to test the normal validation and if this is possible simply leave the custom validator out.

Here is my Model:

/**
 * @MyAssert\Client()
 */
abstract class BaseRequestModel {

    /**
     * @Assert\NotBlank(message="2101")
     */
    protected $clientId;

    /**
     * @Assert\NotBlank(message="2101")
     */
    protected $apiKey;

    // ...

}

In my test, I'm getting the validator, creating an object and then validating it.

$validator = ValidatorFactory::buildDefault()->getValidator();
$requestModel = new RequestModel();
$errors = $validator->validate($requestModel);

Of course this fails as it cannot find the Validator defined for MyAssert\Client, which is a service and needs to be resolved by some dependency injection container.

Anyone has any idea how to either stub the custom validator or to exclude it from validation?

Answer 1

I'd go with something like that:

class MyTest extends Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\WebTestCase
{
    private function getKernel()
    {
        $kernel = $this->createKernel();
        $kernel->boot();

        return $kernel;
    }

    public function testCustomValidator()
    {
        $kernel = $this->getKernel();
        $validator = $kernel->getContainer()->get('validator');

        $violationList = $validator->validate(new RequestModel);

        $this->assertEquals(1, $violationList->count());
        // or any other like:
        $this->assertEquals('client not valid', $violationList[0]->getMessage());
    }
}

Answer 2

have you tried this?

$validator = Validation::createValidatorBuilder()->enableAnnotationMapping()->getValidator();