Writing Dredd Hooks In PHP

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PHP hooks are using Dredd’s hooks handler socket interface. For using PHP hooks in Dredd you have to have Dredd already installed

Installation

Requirements

• php version >= 5.4

Installing dredd-hooks-php can be easily installed through the package manager, composer.

$ composer require ddelnano/dredd-hooks-php --dev

Usage

$ dredd apiary.apib http://127.0.0.1:3000 --language=vendor/bin/dredd-hooks-php --hookfiles=./hooks*.php

Note

If you’re running Dredd inside Docker, read about specifics of getting it working together with non-JavaScript hooks.

API Reference

The Dredd\Hooks class provides the static methods listed below to create hooks

1. beforeEach, beforeEachValidation, afterEach
   • accepts a closure as a first argument passing a Transaction object as a first argument
2. before, beforeValidation, after
   • accepts transaction name as a first argument
   • accepts a block as a second argument passing a Transaction object as a first argument of it
3. beforeAll, afterAll
   • accepts a block as a first argument passing an Array of Transaction objects as a first argument

Refer to Dredd execution lifecycle to find when is each hook function executed.

Using PHP API

Example usage of all methods. Very Important The $transaction variable passed to the closure MUST be a reference. Otherwise the $transaction variable will be passed by value when the closure is executed and the changes will not be reflected.

<?php

use Dredd\Hooks;

Hooks::beforeAll(function(&$transaction) {

    echo "before all";
});

Hooks::beforeEach(function(&$transaction) {

    echo "before each";
});

Hooks::before("Machines > Machines collection > Get Machines", function(&$transaction) {

    echo "before";
});

Hooks::beforeEachValidation(function(&$transaction) {

    echo "before each validation";
});

Hooks::beforeValidation("Machines > Machines collection > Get Machines", function(&$transaction) {

    echo "before validation";
});


Hooks::after("Machines > Machines collection > Get Machines", function(&$transaction) {

    echo "after";
});

Hooks::afterEach(function(&$transaction) {

    echo "after each";
});

Hooks::afterAll(function(&$transaction) {

    echo "after all";
});

Examples

In the dredd-hooks-php repository there is an example laravel application with instructions in the wiki

How to Skip Tests

Any test step can be skipped by setting skip property of the transaction object to true.

<?php

use Dredd\Hooks;


Hooks::before("Machines > Machines collection > Get Machines", function(&$transaction) {

    $transaction->skip = true;
});

Failing Tests Programmatically

You can fail any step by setting fail property on transaction object to true or any string with descriptive message.

<?php

use Dredd\Hooks;


Hooks::before("Machines > Machines collection > Get Machines", function(&$transaction) {

    $transaction->fail = true;
});

Modifying Transaction Request Body Prior to Execution

<?php

use Dredd\Hooks;

Hooks::before("Machines > Machines collection > Get Machines", function(&$transaction) {

    $requestBody = $transaction->request->body;

    $requestBody['someKey'] = 'new value';

    $transaction->request->body = json_encode($requestBody);
});

Adding or Changing URI Query Parameters to All Requests

<?php

use Dredd\Hooks;


Hooks::beforeEach(function(&$transaction) {

    // add query parameter to each transaction here

    $paramToAdd = 'api-key=23456';

    if (strpos($transaction->fullPath, "?")) {

        $transaction->fullPath .= "&{$paramToAdd}";
    }

    else {

        $transaction->fullPath .= "?{$paramToAdd}";
    }
});

Handling sessions

<?php

use Dredd\Hooks;

$stash = [];

Hooks::after("Auth > /remoteauto/userpass", function(&$transaction) use (&$stash) {

    $parsedBody = json_decode($transaction->real->body);

    $stash['token'] = $parseBody->sessionId;
});

Hooks::beforeEach(function(&$transaction) use (&$stash) {

    if ($transaction->token) {

        $transaction->request->headers->Cookie = "id={$stash['token']}s";
    }
});