Re: Getting viewVars set in a controller when using Mock objects during testing

Thanks for that snippet. I've been looking for a way to grab view
variables from outside of the view as well. I was trying to figure out
how the form helper does it (the way select options are automagically
pulled from $$associatedModelName) but wasn't able to find the code
where it's done. ClassRegistry is the best way to do this inside of a
helper as well, right?

On Apr 25, 3:31 pm, jacmoe <jac...@mail.dk> wrote:
> Here's how I do this:
>         $view =& ClassRegistry::getObject('view');
>         $some_view_var = isset($view->viewVars['var']
> ['another_var']) ? $view->viewVars['var']['another_var'] : null;
> I am aware that it is against CakePHP coding conventions to use the
> tertiary conditional operator, but I don't care. :P
>
> Cheers
>
> Jacob
>
> On Apr 25, 4:08 pm, wratke <wra...@rogers.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm wondering if there's any way to get the viewVars when unit testing
> > a
> > controller without using the testAction. I've taken a look at the
> > testAction function in the Cake code and see how it gets the View
> > object
> > and then dumps and returns the viewVars, but as far as I can tell
> > there
> > isn't any way to do something similar without using the testAction
> > function. Is there something in Cake that allows you to access the
> > viewVars that I'm missing? Or should I be dumping the viewVars from
> > the
> > View object manually in my tests? I'm excited to start testing my
> > controllers with Mock objects, but without having access to the
> > viewVars
> > set in the controller I'm finding it difficult to make any assertions
> > in
> > my tests to make sure things are being set properly.
>
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