This is the PHP port of Hamcrest Matchers

Hamcrest is a matching library originally written for Java, but subsequently ported to many other languages. hamcrest-php is the official PHP port of Hamcrest and essentially follows a literal translation of the original Java API for Hamcrest, with a few Exceptions, mostly down to PHP language barriers:

1. instanceOf($theClass) is actually anInstanceOf($theClass)

2. both(containsString('a'))->and(containsString('b')) is actually both(containsString('a'))->andAlso(containsString('b'))

3. either(containsString('a'))->or(containsString('b')) is actually either(containsString('a'))->orElse(containsString('b'))

4. Unless it would be non-semantic for a matcher to do so, hamcrest-php allows dynamic typing for it's input, in "the PHP way". Exception are where semantics surrounding the type itself would suggest otherwise, such as stringContains() and greaterThan().

5. Several official matchers have not been ported because they don't make sense or don't apply in PHP:

   • typeCompatibleWith($theClass)
   • eventFrom($source)
   • hasProperty($name) **
   • samePropertyValuesAs($obj) **

6. When most of the collections matchers are finally ported, PHP-specific aliases will probably be created due to a difference in naming conventions between Java's Arrays, Collections, Sets and Maps compared with PHP's Arrays.

** [Unless we consider POPO's (Plain Old PHP Objects) akin to JavaBeans]

• The POPO thing is a joke. Java devs coin the term POJO's (Plain Old Java Objects).

Usage

Hamcrest matchers are easy to use as:

Hamcrest_MatcherAssert::assertThat('a', Hamcrest_Matchers::equalToIgnoringCase('A'));

Alternatively, you can use the global proxy-functions:

$result = true;
// with an identifier
assertThat("result should be true", $result, equalTo(true));

// without an identifier
assertThat($result, equalTo(true));

// evaluate a boolean expression
assertThat($result === true);

// with syntactic sugar is()
assertThat(true, is(true));

:warning: NOTE: the global proxy-functions aren't autoloaded by default, so you will need to load them first:

\Hamcrest\Util::registerGlobalFunctions();

For brevity, all of the examples below use the proxy-functions.

Documentation

A tutorial can be found on the Hamcrest site.

Available Matchers

• Array
• Collection
• Object
• Numbers
• Type checking
• XML

Array

• anArray - evaluates an array

  assertThat([], anArray());

• hasItemInArray - check if item exists in array

  $list = range(2, 7, 2);
  $item = 4;
  assertThat($list, hasItemInArray($item));

• hasValue - alias of hasItemInArray

• arrayContainingInAnyOrder - check if array contains elements in any order

  assertThat([2, 4, 6], arrayContainingInAnyOrder([6, 4, 2]));
  assertThat([2, 4, 6], arrayContainingInAnyOrder([4, 2, 6]));

• containsInAnyOrder - alias of arrayContainingInAnyOrder

• arrayContaining - An array with elements that match the given matchers in the same order.

  assertThat([2, 4, 6], arrayContaining([2, 4, 6]));
  assertthat([2, 4, 6], not(arrayContaining([6, 4, 2])));

• contains - check array in same order

  assertThat([2, 4, 6], contains([2, 4, 6]));

• hasKeyInArray - check if array has given key

  assertThat(['name'=> 'foobar'], hasKeyInArray('name'));

• hasKey - alias of hasKeyInArray

• hasKeyValuePair - check if array has given key, value pair

  assertThat(['name'=> 'foobar'], hasKeyValuePair('name', 'foobar'));

• hasEntry - same as hasKeyValuePair

• arrayWithSize - check array has given size

  assertthat([2, 4, 6], arrayWithSize(3));

• emptyArray - check if array is empty

  assertThat([], emptyArray());

• nonEmptyArray

  assertThat([1], nonEmptyArray());

Collection

• emptyTraversable - check if traversable is empty

  $empty_it = new EmptyIterator;
  assertThat($empty_it, emptyTraversable());

• nonEmptyTraversable - check if traversable isn't empty

  $non_empty_it = new ArrayIterator(range(1, 10));
  assertThat($non_empty_it, nonEmptyTraversable());
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• traversableWithSize

  $non_empty_it = new ArrayIterator(range(1, 10));
  assertThat($non_empty_it, traversableWithSize(count(range(1, 10))));
  `

Core

• allOf - Evaluates to true only if ALL of the passed in matchers evaluate to true.

  assertThat([2,4,6], allOf(hasValue(2), arrayWithSize(3)));

• anyOf - Evaluates to true if ANY of the passed in matchers evaluate to true.

  assertThat([2, 4, 6], anyOf(hasValue(8), hasValue(2)));

• noneOf - Evaluates to false if ANY of the passed in matchers evaluate to true.

  assertThat([2, 4, 6], noneOf(hasValue(1), hasValue(3)));

• both + andAlso - This is useful for fluently combining matchers that must both pass.

  assertThat([2, 4, 6], both(hasValue(2))->andAlso(hasValue(4)));

• either + orElse - This is useful for fluently combining matchers where either may pass,

  assertThat([2, 4, 6], either(hasValue(2))->orElse(hasValue(4)));

• describedAs - Wraps an existing matcher and overrides the description when it fails.

  $expected = "Dog";
  $found = null;
  // this assertion would result error message as Expected: is not null but: was null
  //assertThat("Expected {$expected}, got {$found}", $found, is(notNullValue()));
  // and this assertion would result error message as Expected: Dog but: was null
  //assertThat($found, describedAs($expected, notNullValue()));

• everyItem - A matcher to apply to every element in an array.

  assertThat([2, 4, 6], everyItem(notNullValue()));

• hasItem - check array has given item, it can take a matcher argument

  assertThat([2, 4, 6], hasItem(equalTo(2)));

• hasItems - check array has given items, it can take multiple matcher as arguments

  assertThat([1, 3, 5], hasItems(equalTo(1), equalTo(3)));

Object

• hasToString - check __toString or toString method

  class Foo {
  public $name = null;
  
  public function __toString() {
      return "[Foo]Instance";
  }
  }
  $foo = new Foo;
  assertThat($foo, hasToString(equalTo("[Foo]Instance")));

• equalTo - compares two instances using comparison operator '=='

  $foo = new Foo;
  $foo2 = new Foo;
  assertThat($foo, equalTo($foo2));

• identicalTo - compares two instances using identity operator '==='

  assertThat($foo, is(not(identicalTo($foo2))));

• anInstanceOf - check instance is an instance|sub-class of given class

  assertThat($foo, anInstanceOf(Foo::class));

• any - alias of anInstanceOf

• nullValue check null

  assertThat(null, is(nullValue()));

• notNullValue check not null

  assertThat("", notNullValue());

• sameInstance - check for same instance

  assertThat($foo, is(not(sameInstance($foo2))));
  assertThat($foo, is(sameInstance($foo)));

• typeOf- check type

  assertThat(1, typeOf("integer"));

• notSet - check if instance property is not set

  assertThat($foo, notSet("name"));

• set - check if instance property is set

  $foo->name = "bar";
  assertThat($foo, set("name"));

Numbers

• closeTo - check value close to a range

  assertThat(3, closeTo(3, 0.5));

• comparesEqualTo - check with '=='

  assertThat(2, comparesEqualTo(2));

• greaterThan - check '>'

  assertThat(2, greaterThan(1));

• greaterThanOrEqualTo

  assertThat(2, greaterThanOrEqualTo(2));

• atLeast - The value is >= given value

  assertThat(3, atLeast(2));

• lessThan

  assertThat(2, lessThan(3));

• lessThanOrEqualTo

  assertThat(2, lessThanOrEqualTo(3));

• atMost - The value is <= given value

  assertThat(2, atMost(3));

String

• emptyString - check for empty string

  assertThat("", emptyString());

• isEmptyOrNullString

  assertThat(null, isEmptyOrNullString());

• nullOrEmptyString

  assertThat("", nullOrEmptyString());

• isNonEmptyString

  assertThat("foo", isNonEmptyString());

• nonEmptyString

  assertThat("foo", nonEmptyString());

• equalToIgnoringCase

  assertThat("Foo", equalToIgnoringCase("foo"));

• equalToIgnoringWhiteSpace

  assertThat(" Foo ", equalToIgnoringWhiteSpace("Foo"));

• matchesPattern - matches with regex pattern

  assertThat("foobarbaz", matchesPattern('/(foo)(bar)(baz)/'));

• containsString - check for substring

  assertThat("foobar", containsString("foo"));

• containsStringIgnoringCase

  assertThat("fooBar", containsStringIgnoringCase("bar"));

• stringContainsInOrder

  assertThat("foo", stringContainsInOrder("foo"));

• endsWith - check string that ends with given value

  assertThat("foo", endsWith("oo"));

• startsWith - check string that starts with given value

  assertThat("bar", startsWith("ba"));

Type-checking

• arrayValue - check array type

  assertThat([], arrayValue());

• booleanValue

  assertThat(true, booleanValue());

• boolValue - alias of booleanValue

• callableValue - check if value is callable

  $func = function () {};
  assertThat($func, callableValue());

• doubleValue

  assertThat(3.14, doubleValue());

• floatValue

  assertThat(3.14, floatValue());

• integerValue

  assertThat(1, integerValue());

• intValue - alias of integerValue

• numericValue - check if value is numeric

  assertThat("123", numericValue());

• objectValue - check for object

  $obj = new stdClass;
  assertThat($obj, objectValue());

• anObject

  assertThat($obj, anObject());

• resourceValue - check resource type

  $fp = fopen("/tmp/foo", "w+");
  assertThat($fp, resourceValue());

• scalarValue - check for scalar value

  assertThat(1, scalarValue());

• stringValue

  assertThat("", stringValue());

XML

• hasXPath - check xml with a xpath

  
  $xml = <<<XML
  <books>
  <book>
  <isbn>1</isbn>   
  </book>
  <book>
  <isbn>2</isbn>   
  </book>
  </books>
  XML;

$doc = new DOMDocument; $doc->loadXML($xml); assertThat($doc, hasXPath("book", 2));