Laravel integration testing jobs - php

Question

I am trying to run an integration tests for my app. I have those jobs:
StartJob
PrepareJob
PeformJob
StartJob dispatches one or more PrepareJob, every PrepareJob dispatches one PerformJob.
Adding this
$this->expectsJobs(
[
StartJobs::class,
PrepareJob::class,
PerformJob::class
]
);
makes my test fail with error saying
1) JobsTest::testJobs
BadMethodCallException: Method Mockery_0_Illuminate_Contracts_Bus_Dispatcher::dispatchNow() does not exist on this mock object
Removing $this->expectsJobs makes all my tests pass, but I can't assert a given job was run, only whether it modified the DB to a given state.
StartJobs.php
class StartJobs extends Job implements ShouldQueue
{
use InteractsWithQueue;
use DispatchesJobs;
public function handle(Writer $writer)
{
$writer->info("[StartJob] Started");
for($i=0; $i < 5; $i++)
{
$this->dispatch(new PrepareJob());
}
$this->delete();
}
}
PrepareJob.php
class PrepareJob extends Job implements ShouldQueue
{
use InteractsWithQueue;
use DispatchesJobs;
public function handle(Writer $writer)
{
$writer->info("[PrepareJob] Started");
$this->dispatch(new PerformJob());
$this->delete();
}
}
PerformJob.php
class PerformJob extends Job implements ShouldQueue
{
use InteractsWithQueue;
public function handle(Writer $writer)
{
$writer->info("[PerformJob] Started");
$this->delete();
}
}
JobsTest.php
class JobsTest extends TestCase
{
/**
* #var Dispatcher
*/
protected $dispatcher;
protected function setUp()
{
parent::setUp();
$this->dispatcher = $this->app->make(Dispatcher::class);
}
public function testJobs()
{
$this->expectsJobs(
[
StartJobs::class,
PrepareJob::class,
PerformJob::class
]
);
$this->dispatcher->dispatch(new StartJobs());
}
}
I think it has to do something with how I am using a concrete dispatcher, while $this->expectsJob mocks the dispatcher. Might be related to this - https://github.com/laravel/lumen-framework/issues/207. What's the way to solve this?

Answer 1

To me it sounds like there is no dispatchNow()-method. In the Jobs your run dispatch() but the error says dispatchNow() does not exist.
Laravel didn't have the dispatchNow()-method before a certain version (i think Laravel 5.2 ... not sure) but just the dispatch(). Could be that the expectsJobs didn't think about that and fails.
You could try not passing it in one array but use 3 commands:
$this->expectsJobs(StartJobs::class);
$this->expectsJobs(PrepareJob::class);
$this->expectsJobs(PerformJob::class);
Maybe that helps.