mockbox and private methods

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Haven’t done this for so long…

Anyway I am trying to test a private method, but while it is private I get an error thrown. If it is public the test passes.

I have searched the docs, and can’t see any place in mockbox wiki where I can test a private method.

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There should not be any difference Andrew, you mock any scope,
are you calling it directly?

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It is a private method, no scope no variable.

model.myFunction(); //fails in test

It turns out that I forgot you need to do this

makePubli(model, “myFunction”);

So all is good now anyway.

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Nope, I thought that was what I needed to do but it isn’t

Here is the test case

makePublic(model, “establishCSRFStateToken”);
model.$property(propertyName = “state”, propertyScope = “this”, mock = ‘’);
model.establishCSRFStateToken();
asserttrue( model.$once(‘setPersistentData’) );

Here is the method

public void function establishCSRFStateToken() {
if (this.state == “”) {
this.state = hash(createUUID());
setPersistentData(“state”, this.state);
}
}

Now I know this is running, as the setPersistentData is basically just setting a session variable and if I debug the session I can see it sitting there. So if I go by the wiki docs, the test case should actually return true as it is only being run once.

Any one have an idea why the $once is saying it hasn’t been run at all? I thought it might be because the function is private, but making it public either in the test or the model makes no difference.

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So no one knows why!!

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6

Now I get it.

You have not mocked the method. Just the scope right?

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Luis, are you hinting that the method needs to be mocked?

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If I remember correctly then yes. I think only mocked methods are tracked