Load single Alice-fixture.yml in phpunit test with symfony

loading-fixture-file-in-phpunit-test.md

Goal

Load single alice fixtures yml file before a phpunit test with symfony.

Steps

Install phpunit-injector

1. composer:

  composer require --dev zalas/phpunit-injector

2. root\phpunit.xml.dist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<phpunit xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://schema.phpunit.de/8.0/phpunit.xsd">

  <!-- ... -->

  <listeners>
      <listener class="Zalas\Injector\PHPUnit\TestListener\ServiceInjectorListener" />
  </listeners>
</phpunit>

3. root\config\packages\framework.yaml:

  framework:
   test: true

Write the test

use Fidry\AliceDataFixtures\Loader\PersisterLoader;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\KernelBrowser;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\WebTestCase;
use Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Form;
use Zalas\Injector\PHPUnit\Symfony\TestCase\SymfonyTestContainer;
use Zalas\Injector\PHPUnit\TestCase\ServiceContainerTestCase;

class YourTest extends WebTestCase implements ServiceContainerTestCase
{

  use SymfonyTestContainer;
  
  /**
   * @inject fidry_alice_data_fixtures.doctrine.persister_loader
   * @var PersisterLoader
   */
  private $loader;

  public function load() {
          $this->loader->load(['fixtures/test/your-fixture-for-this-test.yaml']);
  }
  
}