Laravel partial mocked model not invoked

Question

I'm using laravel (4.2) framework to develop a web application (PHP 5.4.25). I've create a repository-interface that was implemented with eloquent-repository, I use that repository inside a UserController:

#   app/controllers/UsersController.php

use Gas\Storage\User\UserRepositoryInterface as User;

class UsersController extends \BaseController {
    protected $user;

    public function __construct(User $user) {
        $this->user = $user;

    }

    public function store() {
        $input = Input::all();
        $validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $this->user->getRoles());

        if ( $validator->passes() ) {
            $this->user->getUser()->username = Input::get('username');
            $this->user->getUser()->password = Hash::make(Input::get('password'));
            $this->user->getUser()->first_name = Input::get('first_name');
            $this->user->getUser()->last_name = Input::get('last_name');
            $this->user->getUser()->email = Input::get('email');
            $this->user->save();


            return false;
        } else {
            return true;
        }
    }
}

My Repository implementation:

namespace Gas\Storage\User;

#   app/lib/Gas/Storage/User/EloquentUserRepository.php

use User;

class EloquentUserRepository implements UserRepositoryInterface {

    public $_eloquentUser;

    public function __construct(User $user) {
        $this->_eloquentUser = $user;
    }

    public function all()
    {
        return User::all();
    }

    public function find($id)
    {
        return User::find($id);
    }

    public function create($input)
    {
        return User::create($input);
    }

    public function save()
    {
        $this->_eloquentUser->save();
    }

    public function getRoles()
    {
        return User::$rules;
    }

    public function getUser()
    {
        return $this->_eloquentUser;
    }
}

I've also create a UsersControllerTest to testing the controller and all works fine, the user was added to the DB. After I mocked my UserRepositoryInterface because I don't need to test the DB insert, but I just want to test the controller

class UsersControllerTest extends TestCase {
    private $mock;

    public function setUp() {
        parent::setUp();
    }

    public function tearDown() {
        Mockery::close();
    }

    public function mock($class) {
        $mock = Mockery::mock($class);

        $this->app->instance($class, $mock);

        return $mock;
    }

    public function testStore() {
        $this->mock = $this->mock('Gas\Storage\User\UserRepositoryInterface[save]');

        $this->mock
            ->shouldReceive('save')
            ->once();

        $data['username'] = 'xxxxxx';
        $data['first_name'] = 'xxxx';
        $data['last_name'] = 'xxxx';
        $data['email'] = 'prova@gmail.com';
        $data['password'] = 'password';
        $data['password_confirmation'] = 'password';

        $response = $this->call('POST', 'users', $data);

        var_dump($response->getContent());
    }
}

My ruote file:

Route::resource('users', 'UsersController');

When I run the test I get the following error:

Mockery\Exception\InvalidCountException : Method save() from Mockery_0_Gas_Storage_User_UserRepositoryInterface should be called
 exactly 1 times but called 0 times.

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Why the mocked method save has not be called?

What is wrong?

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EDIT: without partial mock all works fine, now the question is: why with partial mock it doesn't work?

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Thanks

Answer 1

Looking back at your code, it seems like you should be able to use partial mocks just by changing your mock function to something like this:

public function mock($class) {
    $mock = Mockery::mock($class);
    $ioc_binding = preg_replace('/\[.*\]/', '', $class);
    $this->app->instance($ioc_binding, $mock);

    return $mock;
}