Mockbox - Mocking internal CF methods?

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Hello Guys,

I’ve got a couple of methods within a CFC which are very heavily reliant on internal CF methods, such as getDirectoryFromPath() and expandPath()

Is it possible for me to overwrite these with mock methods so I can control and test for varying responses?

Thanks,

Robert

2

Yes, but you would need to refactor the code to call a method to encase/wrap these functions.

3

I see, so I would need to have myExpandPath() method which in turn calls the native cf method? I can then mock my custom one?

Thanks, Rob.

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Or better yet would be to break the calls to the paths down into specific functions then mock the results

Let’s say you were uploading a file and wanted the path to your uploads directory, then I would have a small utility method like below and then you can mock that.

function getFileUploadPath() {

return expandPath(‘/uploads’);

}

Rather than just a blanket function to duplicate the expandPath.

Curt Gratz

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I see - this makes sense. Thanks guys I’ll work off of this premis.