How would one do unit testing of controllers w/o HTTP requests?

[AresAndy]

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[diogok]

Hi AresAndy, I see you figured out a way to test it by yourself, which is great.

One could also change the variables $_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] and $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] before starting the RestServer to make it will use a certain controller.

A better appoach, I think, would be to create a setRequest and setResponse method on RestServer so we could create it on demand on the tests.

As a side note, this is framework is probably outdated and lacking in comparison with modern alternatives like Slim .

[AresAndy]

Well, I couldn't resist to try myself 😃.

I thought of that too, but after a first look at the code it seemed to me that in order to do unit testing one should do acceptance testing instead. I also noticed that this framework is quite out of date, but unfortunately I was given the task of maintain a web service written with restserver, and while I suggested to move on a more adequate framework I was heavily forbidden to do so, so I'll see if my slight modification allows one to do phpunit w/o having a server running below.

Thanks